How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781848876828 (1848876823)
Publish date: May 1st 2011
Publisher: Corvus
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
With only TAMMY - a slightly tearful computer with self-esteem issues - a software boss called Phil - Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0 - and an imaginary dog called Ed for company, fixing time machines is a lonely business and Charles Yu is stuck in a rut. He's spent the better part of a decade navel-ga...
Jeśli macie ochotę na lekturę czegoś lekkiego i odprężającego – to nie jest odpowiednia książka! A może i jest? Sama już nie wiem. Jest skomplikowania, momentami zbyt zagmatwana, ale po przeczytaniu jej całej nie wiem do końca, czy określenie „lekka” jest idealnym określeniem, czy totalnym przeciwie...
This book was a lot of fun. I raced through it in the course of two train journeys, which feels appropriate, because it's a book about time, and it's a book about travel. OK, it's a book about time travel, but it places emphasis on both elements of that phrase, and wow, is it clever. Our Narrato...
My personal subtitle for this book:Chronodiegetic science-fiction using the example of applied book-reader-interaction with a focus on metaphysics and philosophy.Books are time machines. Or in Charles Yu's words: "I.e. it is possible, in principle, to construct a universal time machine from no othe...
A little Thursday Next meets existentialist nerdgasming and goes time travelling. I really enjoyed Yu's book of Short Stories "Sorry Please Thank You", and I love Thursday Next, so I loved the idea of this book, where a youngish man who happens to work as a time travel repairman in a sci-fi unive...
7 years ago
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