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CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC and HBO. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and Wired. His next novel, INTERIOR CHINATOWN, will be published by Pantheon in January 2020.

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	How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe 3.38 avg rating — 12,302 ratings — published 2010 — 29 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 3.64 avg rating — 1,910 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 — 694 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
	Fable by Charles Yu (Goodreads Author), Tom Gauld (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 2016	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 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — expected publication 2020 — 3 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
	Yeoman 3.68 avg rating — 19 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 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 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
	Top Ten Tips for Time Travelers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest by Charles Yu (Goodreads Author), Cory Doctorow , Etgar Keret (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	East to West: An Arduous, Ten-Thousand-Mile Journey 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 3 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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Charles Yu asked a question about East to West: Hello! I didn't write this book -- can anyone help me remove it from books on my list? Thanks!
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Charles Yu and 1 other person liked Mark's review of Interior Chinatown: "Charles Yu has produced a rare creature: a novel that is highly literary, playful with form, very funny and - most notably - not difficult. One thing that worked particularly well is the fuzzy boundary between the protagonist's real/screen persona..." Read more of this review »
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Charles Yu and 26 other people liked Charlie Anders's review of Interior Chinatown: "Wow, I love this book so much. Most books are lucky to be either clever or deep, but Interior Chinatown is both, and makes it look easy. Charles Yu has so much to say about the formulas that make up pop-culture storytelling, and the ways those for..." Read more of this review »
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Charles Yu rated a book it was amazing Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill	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 rated a book it was amazing Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson	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 rated a book it was amazing The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon (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

tags: dogs

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“I don't miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but 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 lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... 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

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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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