User can survive inside the TM-31 Recreational Time Travel Device, in isolation, for an indefinite period of time. There is just enough space inside here for one person to live indefinitely, or at least that’s what the operation manual says. Wildly new and adventurous, Yu#x19 s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space#x13 time. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him-in fact it may even save his life. It#x19 s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe,and he#x19 s the author. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. 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. When he#x19 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. That#x19 s where Charles Yu, time travel technician-part counselor, part gadget repair man-steps in. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. 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. 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.
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