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CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which is a Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, and shortlisted for Le Prix Médicis étranger. He has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, been nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld, and has also written for shows on FX, AMC, Facebook Watch, and Adult Swim. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Time and Ploughshares. You can find him on Twitter @charles_yu.

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	How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe 3.43 avg rating — 14,024 ratings — published 2010 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interior Chinatown really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,886 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sorry Please Thank You 3.63 avg rating — 2,090 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Third Class Superhero 3.52 avg rating — 741 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ars Ludens: relatos para sobrevivir al enemigo de final de fase by Charles Yu (Goodreads Author), Silvia Schettin (Translator), Omar Moreno (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.42 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yeoman 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hero Absorbs Major Damage 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fable 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Top Ten Tips for Time Travelers 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Charles Yu and 238 other people liked Roxane's review of Interior Chinatown: "Wildly innovative; a perfect marriage of form and function."
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Charles Yu rated a book it was amazing Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

tags: experience, life, memory, time, wisdom

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“If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

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“Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.”
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What is your favorite time travel book? (Please add it if it's not already here).

The Time Traveler's Wife

16 votes, 15.7%

To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2) by Connie Willis

To Say Nothing of the Dog (write-in)

10 votes, 9.8%

Time and Again (Time, #1) by Jack Finney

Time and Again by Jack Finney

9 votes, 8.8%

Replay

8 votes, 7.8%

Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon

OutlanderOutlander (write-in)

8 votes, 7.8%

The Time Machine

6 votes, 5.9%

Doomsday Book

6 votes, 5.9%

Timeline by Michael Crichton

5 votes, 4.9%

11/22/63 by Stephen King (write-in)

4 votes, 3.9%

Red River, Vol. 1 (Red River, #1) by Chie Shinohara

Anatolia Story by Chie Shinohara (Note by admin: This is actually a Manga graphic novel series know as Red River in the English translation but a notable entry in this chart)

3 votes, 2.9%

Time and Again by Clifford D. Simak

3 votes, 2.9%

The Anubis Gates

3 votes, 2.9%

The Mirror

3 votes, 2.9%

The Accidental Time Machine

2 votes, 2.0%

The Map of Time (Trilogía Victoriana, #1) by Félix J. Palma

The Map of Time (write-in)

2 votes, 2.0%

Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3) by Connie Willis

Blackout by Connie Willis (write-in)

2 votes, 2.0%

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (write-in)

2 votes, 2.0%

When You Reach Me

2 votes, 2.0%

Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

1 vote, 1.0%

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

Somewhere in Time (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century by Harry Turtledove

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

Unhappenings (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

Hollow World

1 vote, 1.0%

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

Time Shifters

0 votes, 0.0%

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