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ALSO BY CHARLES YU
Third Class Superhero
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Charles Yu
All rights reserved. Published in the Unites States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Original publication date in Minor Universe 31 is impossible to determine, due to the nature of residual objects within closed time-like structures.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Yu, Charles, 2010
How to live safely in a science fictional universe: a novel / Charles Yu.
p. cm.
eISBN 978-0-307-37948-1 V.1.0
I. Title.
PS3625.U15H68 2010
813’.6—dc222010001837
www.pantheonbooks.com
First Edition
To my mother and father, again. And again.
And to Michelle, as ever.
We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception. A man is a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity and are in perpetual flux and movement.
—DAVID HUME
Time does not flow.
Other times are just special cases
of other universes.
—DAVID DEUTSCH
Everything we are
is
at every moment
alive in us.
—ARTHUR MILLER
ENTER THE FOLLOWING PERSONAL DATA:
(CURRENT CHRONOLOGICAL AGE)
(DESIRED AGE)
(AGE YOU WERE WHEN YOU LAST SAW YOUR FATHER)
Computing.
Trajectory locked.
When it happens, this is what happens: I shoot myself.
Not, you know, my self self. I shoot my future self. He steps out of a time machine, introduces himself as Charles Yu. What else am I supposed to do? I kill him. I kill my own future.
Contents
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraphs
(module α)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
(module β)
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
(module γ)
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
(module δ)
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
(module ε)
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Appendix A
Acknowledgments
About the Author
(module α)
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