How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe written by and starring Charles Yu has been popping up on a lot of best-of lists for 2010. This is Yu’s first book (he does have a collection of short stories titled Third Class Superhero), but it doesn’t show. Having listened to an interview with Yu, he mentioned that he put his name in for the main character as a placeholder, but it worked so well in the novel, that he was reluctant to remove it later. So, how do you life safely in a science fictional universe?

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