Other background notes for A Time-Traveler’s Guide through the Multiverse…

Last week you read some of the physics background for my new sci-fi rom-com. In this article, I consider some other reasons for writing it.

Maybe I’m too serious, but I have trouble writing humor. There’s some in my novels—humor is part of the human experience, after all. And I can be ironic, biting, wry, and cynical, from short stories to novels, but it’s hard for me to sustain a long, humorous story. There are no novels with a comedic flavor, only some short fiction…until now.

They say humor i...