And then you realize that what he's saying actually makes sense, that he's actually figured out something really fascinating about the way time works, about the way fiction works, and the "Aha!" switch in your brain gets flipped. There are times when he starts off a paragraph about chronodiegetics that just sounds like pseudo-scientific gibberish meant to fill in some space. I thought to myself, Seriously? I'm here at Comic-Con and you expect me to read a 200-plus page book in the middle of a huge exhibit hall packed to the gills with stuff I want to see? Riiiight.
and then suggested that I should read it before Saturday so that I could talk to Yu about it when he came to Comic-Con for the panel. I stumbled upon the booth during Preview Night, where a friendly publicist named Josefine said she thought the book would be really great for GeekDad, it has a father-son relationship at the heart of it, here's an uncorrected proof to read.
#Charles yu tm 31 how to#
From the title, it sounded like a collection of geeky essays, or maybe tongue-in-cheek, a How To Survive a Robot Uprising type of book. I sort of skimmed the email, made a note to myself to maybe check it out later, and didn't really think of it further.
I got an email from Pantheon Books prior to Comic-Con (note: if you get a press pass for Comic-Con, be prepared to be flooded with PR emails for everything from upcoming books to Elvira's return to television to some guy trying to break the Guinness world record for hot dog eating) about a book titled How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, asking me to stop by the booth and attend the author's panel during the convention. I mentioned earlier that I was really excited about this new book by Charles Yu, and I'd been planning to save a review until closer to the release date, in September, but since Yu has been generating a lot of positive buzz* I figured I might as well tell you about it now, and then remind you again later.
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