How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe
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How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe
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Author : Charles Yu
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2011-05-01
How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe written by Charles Yu and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Fiction categories.
Brimming with alternative universes, futuristic landscapes and gleeful metaphysics... Yu's spirit of invention is infectious. - Sunday Times Highly inventive and hilarious - The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________ With only TAMMY - a slightly tearful computer with self-esteem issues - a software boss called Phil - Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0 - and an imaginary dog called Ed for company, fixing time machines is a lonely business and Charles Yu is stuck in a rut. He's spent the better part of a decade navel-gazing, spying on 39 different versions of himself in alternate universes (and discovered that 35 of them are total jerks). And he's kind of fallen in love with TAMMY, which is bad because she doesn't have a module for that. With all that's on his mind, perhaps it's no surprise that when he meets his future self, he shoots him in the stomach. And that's a beginner's mistake for a time machine repairman. Now he's stuck in a time loop, going in circles forever. All he has, wrapped in brown paper, is the book his future self was trying to press into his hands. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. And he's the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could save him.
Third Class Superhero
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Author : Charles Yu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Third Class Superhero written by Charles Yu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Identity categories.
Moisture Man, the hero of “Third Class Superhero”, is tired of watching his former classmates kick ass and claim their secret hideouts while he struggles to maintain his good-guy accreditation. Someday soon he’ll have to decide whose side he’s really on, and how far he’s willing to push the panels of his storyline. Meanwhile, in "401(k)", a young, upwardly-mobile couple attempt to navigate their way through a world of pure advertising, with hopes of attaining the Pretty Good Life. And in "The Man Who Became Himself", a successful executive is terrified to find himself becoming trapped inside his own body. Through these eleven stories, Charles Yu explores issues of identity, time and being in an age of dislocation. Heartbreaking, hilarious, smart, surprising, Third Class Superhero marks the arrival of an impressive new talent.
Sorry Please Thank You
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Author : Charles Yu
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Sorry Please Thank You written by Charles Yu and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Fiction categories.
From the National Book Award–winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories. A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to ask a coworker out on a date . . . A fighter leads his band of virtual warriors, thieves, and wizards across a deadly computer-generated landscape, but does he have what it takes to be a hero? . . . A company outsources grief for profit, its slogan: “Don’t feel like having a bad day? Let someone else have it for you.” Drawing from both pop culture and science, Charles Yu is a brilliant observer of contemporary society, and in Sorry Please Thank You he fills his stories with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and piercing insight into the human condition. He has already garnered comparisons to such masters as Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, and in this new collection we have resounding proof that he has arrived (via a wormhole in space-time) as a major new voice in American fiction.
Sleep Donation
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Author : Karen Russell
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-09-29
Sleep Donation written by Karen Russell and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with Fiction categories.
'Sleep Donation has a dreamlike beauty while remaining ominous and off-kilter. Parts of it gave me nightmares' Stephen King An epidemic of insomnia has left America crippled with exhaustion. Thankfully the Slumber Corps agency provides a lifeline, transfusing sleep to sufferers from healthy volunteers. Recruitment manager Trish Edgewater, whose sister Dori was one of the first victims of the disaster, has spent the last seven years enlisting new donors. But when she meets the mysterious Donor Y and Baby A – whose sleep can be universally accepted – her faith in the organisation and in her own motives begins to unravel. Fully illustrated and featuring a brand-new 'Nightmare Appendix', this uncanny and prescient novella from the bestselling author of Swamplandia! will haunt your sleepless nights. Praise for Sleep Donation: ‘Russell's ability to balance the quirky and the absurd with psychological acumen...turns this unbelievable world into something more than dreamlike’ NPR ‘Russell writes with such assurance and speed that she puts the reader under a spell for the duration of her story’ New York Times ‘Russell has a keen sense of dramatic timing and an even sharper ability to turn an internal state into its own weather system’ Boston Globe
Interior Chinatown
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Author : Charles Yu
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2020-01-28
Interior Chinatown written by Charles Yu and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with Fiction categories.
NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “A shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood” (Vanity Fair) and a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it? After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.
Race And Utopian Desire In American Literature And Society
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Author : Patricia Ventura
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-10-12
Race And Utopian Desire In American Literature And Society written by Patricia Ventura and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-12 with Social Science categories.
Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thought in American culture and society. Utopia in everyday usage designates an idealized fantasy place, but within the interdisciplinary field of utopian studies, the term often describes the worldviews of non-dominant groups when they challenge the ruling order. In a time when white supremacy is reasserting itself in the US and around the world, there is a growing need to understand the vital relationship between race and utopia as a resource for resistance. Utopian literature opens up that relationship by envisioning and negotiating the prospect of a better future while acknowledging the brutal past. The collection fills a critical gap in both literary studies, which has largely ignored the issue of race and utopia, and utopian studies, which has said too little about race.
Seveneves Free Sampler
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Author : Neal Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Seveneves Free Sampler written by Neal Stephenson and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Fiction categories.
The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction President Barack Obama’s summer reading choice
The History Of Science Fiction A Graphic Novel Adventure
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Author : Xavier Dollo
language : en
Publisher: Humanoids, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-11-23
The History Of Science Fiction A Graphic Novel Adventure written by Xavier Dollo and has been published by Humanoids, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-23 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Journey through time and space with this graphic novel history of the science fiction genre.
Childhood S End
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Author : Arthur C. Clarke
language : en
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Release Date : 2012-11-30
Childhood S End written by Arthur C. Clarke and has been published by RosettaBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-30 with Fiction categories.
In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: “A first-rate tour de force” (The New York Times). In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind’s largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly benevolent: end war, poverty, and cruelty. Their presence, rather than signaling the end of humanity, ushers in a golden age . . . or so it seems. Without conflict, human culture and progress stagnate. As the years pass, it becomes clear that the Overlords have a hidden agenda for the evolution of the human race that may not be as benevolent as it seems. “Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master.” —Los Angeles Times
Life As We Knew It
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Author : Susan Beth Pfeffer
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2008-05-01
Life As We Knew It written by Susan Beth Pfeffer and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-01 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
New York Times bestseller! A heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller that's "absorbing from first to last page."* When a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth, Miranda, a high school sophomore, takes shelter with her family. Told in a year’s worth of journal entries, Life as We Knew It chronicles the human struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all—hope—in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald’s still would be open. Like one marble hitting another, when the moon slams closer to earth, the result is catastrophic. Worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun. Life as We Know It is an extraordinary series debut. The companion novels are: The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon. (*Publishers Weekly, starred review)