Capsule review of "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" from the Sunday Times

[ajr]

The fictional Charles Yu, the protagonist of the real Charles Yu's debut novel, is a time-machine repairman who gets into a paradoxical pickle when he meets his future self and shoots him in the stomach. Although the novel comes dressed as science fiction, brimming with alternate universes, futuristic landscapes and gleeful metaphysics, that is all

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[hnpcc]

*snerk* OTOH if it encourages more people to read it, then I'm mostly fine with it. You never know, they might get out and discover that - shock! - there is actually a lot of good stuff out there under the SF umbrella.