How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - Charles Yu
I really, really enjoyed this book. It had all the things I traditionally love in good books: great writing, some science fiction and a compelling family plot thrown in.
The book follows an unnamed (to my recollection though I've seen other reviewers call the character Chales Yu, like a fictionalized version of the author) a guy in his early 30s who works as a low level bureaucrat for a time-travelling company going and fixing mistakes for people who have time-travelled and are about to screw up a time-line or create a paradox. He's thrown himself into his work and avoided his life for the past ten years because his father, an amateur pioneer in time-travel technology has gone missing and to a certain extent the narrator blames himself.
The book is a rather short read but it's a lot of fun and very lightly but beautifully written. There are so many interesting things going on that Yu only gives us a peep at, but I did like the central story of trying to find his father and reconcile with him. Super enjoyable. I highly recommend it.
The book follows an unnamed (to my recollection though I've seen other reviewers call the character Chales Yu, like a fictionalized version of the author) a guy in his early 30s who works as a low level bureaucrat for a time-travelling company going and fixing mistakes for people who have time-travelled and are about to screw up a time-line or create a paradox. He's thrown himself into his work and avoided his life for the past ten years because his father, an amateur pioneer in time-travel technology has gone missing and to a certain extent the narrator blames himself.
The book is a rather short read but it's a lot of fun and very lightly but beautifully written. There are so many interesting things going on that Yu only gives us a peep at, but I did like the central story of trying to find his father and reconcile with him. Super enjoyable. I highly recommend it.