How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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Charles Yu is a time machine repairman who spends his days fixing machines and his nights trying to figure out how to live in a world that increasingly doesn't make sense. With only a tearful computer named TAMMY, a boss who's more like a middle manager from a Microsoft program, and an imaginary dog for company, Charles is feeling the weight of loneliness and despair. That is, until he meets his future self... And shoots him in the stomach. Now, Charles is stuck in a time loop, going around in circles forever. He's left with nothing but a book wrapped in brown paper that his future self was trying to give him - a book called "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe." As he reads through the book, he discovers that somewhere inside its pages lies the information he needs to save himself. Join Charles as he navigates through alternate universes, time paradoxes, and his own damaged psyche to find a way out of his predicament and, perhaps, find some meaning to his existence along the way.