How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

by Charles Yu

First published 2010

When a tech repair worker named Minor gets trapped in a time loop, he must journey through the quantum multiverse to find his future self and escape his fractured family's influence. Bouncing between past, present, and possible futures, Minor's desperate attempts to reset the timeline only spur more chaos. As he grapples with his father's abandonment and his own stunted ambitions, Minor must confront the paradoxes of his life before the fabric of reality unravels around him.

Genres: science-fiction, literary-fiction, time-travel, family-drama

Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator

Setting: Science Fictional Universe

Period: Past, Present, Future

239 pages · Paperback · Corvus

Content warnings: mental-illness

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