I don’t really have the time or the mental wherewithall to say much about How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu, except that it is one of the most intellectually exciting and engaging novels I’ve read in a long time. If you haven’t yet read it, go away and do so now. Science Fiction often works by rather obvious metaphors, but in this novel you can read it as either one very cleverly sustained metaphor, or you can read the events as real, and the book works equally well both ways. In fact the ability to switch mentally back and forth between a real and a metaphorical reading of the book is one of its great delights. Fortunately I don’t have to say much, Maureen Kincaid Speller has expressed my feelings about the book pretty exactly in this review.
Great book, go read. Enjoy!
I got this book as a holiday gift. Your words and the linked review are making me very excited to read it.
I got this as a gift, too! Very pumped to dig in.
Sorry–stupid IPhone–hit publish in the middle of my comment. Meant to say WAS very pumped to dig in. And that i loved this book very, very much. I’m a sci fi nerd but it’s not just for sci fi nerds, not at all.