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Charles Yu: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Hardcover, 2010, Pantheon Books) 3 stars

Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change …

Review of 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

According to the dust jacket, this book should be "a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space-time." Unfortunately it actually is little more than experimental, self-referential, metaphysical twaddle.

The best things about this book are the title and the cover art. The book itself reads like the writers behind Wesley Crusher's, from ST:TNG, techno-babble dialogue got high on speed and LCD simultaneously while feeling sorry for themselves.