![]() ![]() Just like its timid, somewhat unsure narrator, the novel does not take itself or its conceits too seriously. ![]() The capital city, which is home to more than eighty percent of the population, is a place called Lost Tokyo (the original city ruptured into two pieces), a fairly workaday place where lonely sexbots roam the streets.īut How to Live Safely is not science fiction in a Ray Bradburyish way. The setting is sometime in the future, in a somewhat bleak, possibly post-apocalyptic location called Minor Universe 31, where major tectonic shifts leave many places inhabitable, and the world is run by corporations-perhaps only slightly more than it is now. (It comes as a surprise that she is not the one writing novels). ![]() He is accompanied by Ed, an imaginary but “ontologically valid” dog plus TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem. The book is divided into “modules” using the Greek alphabet (starting with alpha) and includes footnotes, algorithms, white space, and a complex diagram of a “time loop.” The protagonist, a young man who happens to be named Charles Yu and is also the author of a mysterious book, has a job repairing time machines. tenseless) to time, and how different it is to live in each of them. Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe begins with a “chronodiegetical schematic,” a theoretical chart that maps two different approaches (tense vs. ![]()
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