Maybe it doesn’t actually mean anything, which would be fine, which would be okay by me, because that’s what I’ve been doing: living in here, indefinitely.
User can survive inside the TM-31 Recreational Time Travel Device, in isolation, for an indefinite period of time.
There is just enough space inside here for one person to live indefinitely, or at least that’s what the operation manual says. And somewhere inside it is the information that could save him. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. All he has, wrapped in brown paper, is the book his future self was trying to press into his hands. Now he's stuck in a time loop, going in circles forever. And that's a beginner's mistake for a time machine repairman. With all that's on his mind, perhaps it's no surprise that when he meets his future self, he shoots him in the stomach. And he's kind of fallen in love with TAMMY, which is bad because she doesn't have a module for that. He's spent the better part of a decade navel-gazing, spying on 39 different versions of himself in alternate universes (and discovered that 35 of them are total jerks). 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. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. The key to locating his father may be found in a book. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the National Book Award- winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a razor-sharp, hilarious, and touching story of a son searching for his father. An admittedly worn but solid signed first printing of this first novel by National Book Award-winning author Charles Yu. Pages smell faintly of smoke, with small ink marks and highlighting to pages throughout. Moderate wear to binding, with bumping to head and tail of spine. Bound in full silver paper over boards, with spine lettered in black. Mild edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with two very faint spots of staining around spine. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. Signed by Charles Yu to Vintage Books Bookplate affixed to front free endpaper.
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