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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition)

Author	: Charles Yu
Publisher	: Knopf
Release Date	: 2010-09-07
ISBN 10	: 9780307379887
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (798 users)

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Download or read book How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition) written by Charles Yu and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced eBook includes video, audio, photographic, and linked content, as well as a bonus short story. Hear TAMMY talk. Learn the origins of Minor Universe 31. See the TM-31. Take a trip in it. Photos and illustrations appear as hyperlinked endnotes. Video and audio are embedded directly in text. *Video and audio may not play on all readers. Check your user manual for details. National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—in fact it may even save his life. Wildly new and adventurous, Yu’s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space–time.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Author	: Charles Yu
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2014-06
ISBN 10	: 415335015X
Pages	: 314 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe written by Charles Yu and published by . This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese edition of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, the 2010 best science fiction. Yu is 2007 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner. The novel is about a son searching for his father by use of a time machine. In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Author	: Charles Yu
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2010-09-07
ISBN 10	: 9780307379481
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (794 users)

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Download or read book How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe written by Charles Yu and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award–⁠winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time. Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. The key to locating his father may be found in a book. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. It may even save his life.

Sorry Please Thank You

Author	: Charles Yu
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2012-07-24
ISBN 10	: 9780307907189
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (71 users)

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Download or read book Sorry Please Thank You written by Charles Yu and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award–⁠winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories. A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to ask a coworker out on a date . . . A fighter leads his band of virtual warriors, thieves, and wizards across a deadly computer-generated landscape, but does he have what it takes to be a hero? . . . A company outsources grief for profit, its slogan: “Don’t feel like having a bad day? Let someone else have it for you.” Drawing from both pop culture and science, Charles Yu is a brilliant observer of contemporary society, and in Sorry Please Thank You he fills his stories with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and piercing insight into the human condition. He has already garnered comparisons to such masters as Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, and in this new collection we have resounding proof that he has arrived (via a wormhole in space-time) as a major new voice in American fiction.

Third Class Superhero

Author	: Charles Yu
Publisher	: HMH
Release Date	: 2006-09-05
ISBN 10	: 9780547545707
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (457 users)

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Download or read book Third Class Superhero written by Charles Yu and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compulsively readable collection” of short fiction from the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Publishers Weekly). With deadpan humor and originality, Charles Yu spins Kafkaesque tales of modern identity and insecurity in this whip-smart debut. In 401(k), a couple living in the Luxury Car Commercial subdivision are disappointed when their exotic vacation turns into a Life Insurance/Asset Management pitch. The author struggles to write the definitive biography of his mother in Autobiographical Raw Material Unsuitable for the Mining of Fiction. And would-be superhero Moisture Man must come to terms with the darkness in his heart. Throughout the collection, Yu’s characters run up against the limitations of their artificial story lines while tackling the terrifying aspects of existence: mothers, jobs, spouses, and perhaps most terrifying of all, the need to express feelings. Heartbreaking and hilarious, Third Class Superhero marked the debut of an author who has been a PEN award finalist, and whose novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe was named one of Time’s best books of the year. “The post-collegiate braininess of many of Yu’s stories is like the music of the Talking Heads, making the familiar seem off-kilter. . . . Takes a Kafkaesque turn in its comic examination of the essence of identity.” —Kirkus Reviews

Interior Chinatown

Author	: Charles Yu
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2020-01-28
ISBN 10	: 9780307907202
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (72 users)

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Download or read book Interior Chinatown written by Charles Yu and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. "One of the funniest books of the year.... A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it? After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

Yeoman

Author	: Charles Yu
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2015-05-15
ISBN 10	: 9781101970072
Pages	: 16 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Yeoman written by Charles Yu and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Who explores the final frontier? The ship has reached the last world. Beamed down from the transporter bay is the captain, the XO, the medic, the security chief, the ethnographer, and finally an unnamed yeoman, the narrator of Charles Yu’s mind-bending journey into the science fiction unknown. And the yeoman knows one thing, if he knows anything at all: the yeoman always dies. In the tradition of Jonathan Lethem and Douglas Adams, National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award winner Charles Yu presents a story of searching (not wandering) and the galactic limits of home, from the utterly original collection Sorry Please Thank You. An eBook short.

Interior Chinatown

Author	: Charles Yu
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2020-11
ISBN 10	: 178770257X
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Interior Chinatown written by Charles Yu and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy - the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that's what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more. Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.

The Only Living Girl on Earth

Author	: Charles Yu
Publisher	: Scribd, Inc.
Release Date	: 2021-01-08
ISBN 10	: 9781094411187
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (111 users)

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Download or read book The Only Living Girl on Earth written by Charles Yu and published by Scribd, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future. Jane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t born on Earth, but her ancestors were; they lived there before the AI in charge of geoengineering failed and the oceans got too hot to sustain the terrestrial food web and before humans took off to colonize other planets. She’s heading to college on Jupiter in the fall of 3020, so her days on the home planet—selling “American Epoch” postcards, “History: The Poster!” and “War: The Soundtrack” to tourists from the suburbs of Europa—are numbered. But as the looping promotional ad for Earth details, in the planet’s more recent past there was an amusement park, a museum, and even a model American town to draw visitors: all shuttered now, abandoned. When a man and his son crash-land their rocket and need assistance, as well as some diversion, Jane learns that the other attractions on Earth are not so defunct after all and may have taken on a life of their own. Told, fittingly, in interconnected fragments, The Only Living Girl on Earth captures a place where only fragments of its landscape remain. At once dead serious and playful, recognizable and as otherworldly and unsettling as Yu’s other sci-fi reinventions, it is a cautionary tale about all that we could lose—are losing—by failing to live sustainably and about what we hope to leave behind for future generations. It is also a love letter to what it means to be human, how connected we are to a place and one another, and how we must fight to preserve these gifts. In this, Yu expresses his unique brand of cosmic humanism, that even in the face of dire circumstances, when we feel the most estranged from who and what we are, there is still hope.

The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature

Author	: W. Michelle Wang
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2020-12-07
ISBN 10	: 9781000220742
Pages	: 470 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (27 users)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature written by W. Michelle Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.

YELLOW HOUSE

Author	: Chiwan Choi
Publisher	: Civil Coping Mechanisms
Release Date	: 2017-02-22
ISBN 10	: 1937865819
Pages	: 128 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (19 users)

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Download or read book YELLOW HOUSE written by Chiwan Choi and published by Civil Coping Mechanisms. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first time I heard Chiwan Choi read, I had no idea what to expect. By the time he was done a few minutes later, I was shaken, almost vibrating with the energy of his voice, his line. The poems in his latest, The Yellow House, show that this energy has only intensified over time. There's a kind of low-key power to his writing that can be casually devastating--a naked, a cappella warbling that can rise, in an instant, to the ecstatic." --Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe

Abductions

Author	: Chiwan Choi
Publisher	: Civil Coping Mechanisms
Release Date	: 2018-03-08
ISBN 10	: 1948700026
Pages	: 110 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (26 users)

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Download or read book Abductions written by Chiwan Choi and published by Civil Coping Mechanisms. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second collection by Los Angeles poet Chiwan Choi explores the arc of his life, and that of his family, through an alien abduction mythology. Abductions is Book #1 of Choi's "Home in Three Parts" trilogy. "On the surface, Choi's poems have a quiet, controlled quality to them. Underneath, there's danger and rage and sadness. His voice rings clear and true in this volume, and I can't stop hearing it in my head." --Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

Author	: N.K. Jemisin
Publisher	: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date	: 2017-10-03
ISBN 10	: 9780544980679
Pages	: 382 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (86 users)

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Download or read book The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 written by N.K. Jemisin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories by N.K. Jemisin, Dale Bailey, Peter S. Beagle, and more: “Showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre.” —TheWashington Post Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres—they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears. With a diverse selection of stories from major award winners, bestsellers, and rising stars, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Charles Yu, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 continues to explore the ever- changing world of SFF today, with Yu bringing his unique view—literary, meta, and adventurous—to the series’ third edition. “Superb…This mostly dystopic, sometimes darkly humorous collection of 20 hard-hitting stories feels timely, confronting contemporary cultural crises.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Future Asians

Author	: Claire Stanford
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2022
ISBN 10	: OCLC:1321258988
Pages	: 165 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (125 users)

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Download or read book Future Asians written by Claire Stanford and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Future Asians: Orientalism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century U.S. Science Fiction, I investigate the representation of Asians and Asian Americans in contemporary American science fiction. There is broad scholarly consensus that American science fiction of the early to mid-twentieth century responded to fears over immigration and overpopulation with overtly racist portrayals of Asian characters. I argue that science fiction of the early twenty-first century responds to global economic and technological conflict with a more subtle - but nonetheless racially coded - portrayal of Asian bodies as no longer entirely human. By examining these iterations of Asian posthumanism, my project contends with American science fiction's persistent Orientalist discourse; ultimately, I assert that this seemingly fantastical genre reveals pressing U.S. anxieties about rising Asia and its competitive impact on both global trade and technological innovation. Working at the intersection of science fiction studies, Asian American studies, and critical race studies, Future Asians aims to illuminate larger questions of race and futurity. Specifically, my dissertation examines the notion of the technological and biotechnological posthuman, which I define as mechanical imitations of the human (robots, artificial intelligence) and forms of the human that still rely on incorporating normal biological functioning of the human (clones, cyborgs). While these posthuman forms are often considered non-raced entities, I argue that science-fictional portrayals of the posthuman are not non-raced at all, but rather directly contend with contemporary racial biases and injustices. By examining three major tropes of Asian posthuman representation - the virtual avatar, the non-singular self, and the android - Future Asians investigates how contemporary U.S. science fiction employs the image of the posthuman either to reinscribe negative racial histories and stereotypes or to counter these histories. As the posthuman becomes a widespread theoretical concept across the humanities and social sciences, my study poses a critical intervention, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of the posthuman that applies across the subfields of Latinx futurism, Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, and Indigenous futurism. The first chapter, "Ready Player One and the Reassertion of United States Economic & Technological Supremacy" interrogates the posthuman trope of the virtual avatar. I argue that, by reducing the novel's Japanese characters to pre-modern Japanese tropes via their choice of samurai as their avatars, Ernest Cline portrays Japan as an economic and technological threat that has been contained, thus modeling a future in which American individualism wins out over Asian collectivism and reasserting U.S. supremacy. The second chapter, "Genre and the Generic Human in How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe," examines the posthuman trope of the non-singular self, represented in the novel through the science-fictional concept of the time-travel double. I argue that it is the very act of giving up the commitment to the Western notion of the individual self - through interacting with his time-travel double - that allows the protagonist to break free of the model minority myth and the pressures of assimilation for Asian immigrants to the U.S. Additionally, I argue that the novel's generic ambiguity challenges both the tropes of science fiction and the tropes of the immigrant narrative, formally underlining the novel's argument against assimilation by refusing to assimilate to either genre. The third chapter, "'In the future, no one is completely human': Posthuman Poetics in Sun Yung Shin's Unbearable Splendor and Franny Choi's Soft Science" looks at the posthuman trope of the android in two recent poetry collections. I argue that Shin and Choi subvert the tropes of the Asian posthuman through linguistic play, ultimately demonstrating a flexible notion of selfhood that not only transcends racial boundaries but also species boundaries and boundaries between the human and the mechanical. Finally, three interspersed interludes - Nuclear, Crispr, and Sex - consider contemporary - rather than science-fictional - technologies. In looking at nuclear technology, gene-editing technology, and sex doll/sex robot technology, I demonstrate that the posthuman is not purely a science-fictional concept, but rather is already ingrained in these contemporary technologies' relationship to the Asian body. By drawing on archival material, cultural criticism, and personal reflection, each of the three interludes grounding this project's concerns with the posthuman in the present - showing how the posthuman is not only relevant to our shared future, but to our current moment

A Hundred Thousand Worlds

Author	: Bob Proehl
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2016-06-28
ISBN 10	: 9780399562228
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (622 users)

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Download or read book A Hundred Thousand Worlds written by Bob Proehl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut.” —Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints "Proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder." —Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago—leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way. As they travel west, encountering superheroes, monsters, time travelers, and robots, Val and Alex are drawn into the orbit of the comic-con regulars, from a hapless twentysomething illustrator to a brilliant corporate comics writer stuggling with her industry's old-school ways to a group of cosplay women who provide a chorus of knowing commentary. For Alex, this world is a magical place where fiction becomes reality, but as they get closer to their destination, he begins to realize that the story his mother is telling him about their journey might have a very different ending than he imagined. A knowing and affectionate portrait of the geeky pleasures of fandom, A Hundred Thousand Worlds is also a tribute to the fierce and complicated love between a mother and son—and to the way the stories we create come to shape us.

The Great Frustration

Author	: Seth Fried
Publisher	: Catapult
Release Date	: 2011-05-01
ISBN 10	: 9781593764517
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (645 users)

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Download or read book The Great Frustration written by Seth Fried and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fried’s stories are laugh-out-loud hilarious and wonderfully weird, yet his many strange worlds also have the power to haunt.” --Dan Chaon In “Loeka Discovered,” a buzz flows throughout a lab when scientists unearth a perfectly preserved prehistoric man who suggests to them the hopefulness of life, but the more they learn, the more the realities of ancient survival invade their buoyant projections. “Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre” meditates on why an entire town enthusiastically rushes out to the annual picnic that ends, year after year, in a massacre of astonishing creativity and casualty. The title story illuminates the desires and even the violence that surges beneath the tenuous peace among the animals in the Garden of Eden. Equal parts fable and wry satire, Seth Fried’s stories suggest that we are at our most compelling and human when wrestling with the most frustrating aspects of both the world around us and of our very own natures—and show why he has been called “one of the most exciting new voices in fiction” (Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe). “He’s channeling Saunders by way of Barthelme and Kafka, but also clearing a whole new territory of his own . . . Seth Fried is the future of fiction.” —Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief

Talking Book Topics

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2013
ISBN 10	: OSU:32435087127973
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (58 users)

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Download or read book Talking Book Topics written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: