![]() In the margins of my copy, I over and over have jotted down notes of empathy. Second, so much of the book resonated emotionally. Lots of managerial “yo dog” and “I’m still your homie?” ensues. I just hope that was her mouth” p52) to Charles’s manager, “an old copy of Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0 … The only thing is, and this isn’t really that big a deal, is that Phil thinks he’s a real person” (p40). Close enough that she looked awesome… She was a good kisser. From running into Luke Skywalker’s patricidal son to making out with some alien (“Not human exactly. (But while you can visit the past, you can’t change it or you risk splitting off into a parallel universe in which the past was as you have changed it…or something.) Or a woman who wants to have been there when her grandmother died. To grow up with the freaking savior of the universe as your dad” (p13). For example, Linus Skywalker going back in time to try and kill his father Luke: “You have no idea what it’s like, man. He has spent the last decade living in his time machine (a little bigger than a telephone booth), racing around and saving clients who get stuck. The main character, Charles Yu, is a time machine technician in a science fictional universe. At the high risk of sounding pretentious, I like “literary science fiction” Yu, in his interview at the end of the book, describes his inspiration, a book that “handled actual science…without watering it down, and yet it was clearly Serious Fiction, … the kind that was in the Sunday book review sections.” This book definitely falls in that category. I loved Lethem’s Gun, with Occasional Music (crime noir in sci-fi setting) and liked his As She Climbed Across the Table (sci-fi relationship story, maybe). I have a limited tolerance for science fiction. Reflections on loss and on fathers & sons, within an awesome, creative, & funny time-traveling framework
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