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“Sometimes when I’m brushing my teeth, I’ll look in the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I’m not even particularly good at being myself.”
—How to Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu
“I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have already written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, will never write.”
— How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe…
“Say you have a time machine. Where and when would you choose to visit? When he’s not working, time machine repairman Charles Yu tends to prefer resting in a small corner of the universe where nothing ever happens. (Personally, I’d zip over to 1920s Paris.)
Yu, the main character in Available Light Theatre’s adaptation of the zany novel “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe” by Charles Yu, seems fairly content to be isolated in his little machine, encountering other human beings only when he’s on the clock. But he realizes at a certain point that he regrets leaving his normal life behind.
“It’s a quirky science fiction story but at the heart of it, it has a great family story about relationships and loneliness,” said Matt Slaybaugh, Available Light’s artistic director, who co-wrote the stage adaptation with playwright Jennifer Fawcett…”
Read more here.
Everyone has a time machine. Everyone is a time machine. It’s just that most people’s machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines. We are perfectly engineered time machines, technologically equipped to allow the inside user, the traveler riding inside each of us, to experience time travel, and loss, and understanding. We are universal time machines manufactured to the most exacting specifications possible. Every single one of us.
Here’s your chance to vote for the new paperback cover for Charles Yu’s HOW TO LIVE SAFELY IN A SCIENCE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE…
“Coolest Book Covers 2011: The Year’s Best So Far.”
It’s not easy to make a cool book cover. The designer usually has a million different people weighing in, each with a separate need that can potentially tie creativity in a knot. The author wants one image, while the publisher wants a focus on the words on the jacket. “A cover is an ad,” a publisher will say and then the creative director must create one while still trying to make it look unique, to make it stand out on the shelf against all the other books—many of which look the same.
At Huffington Post Books, we open a lot of packages every day, and after a while, the covers can start to look alike. But once in a while, something just pops out of the envelope and we had to point it out. We just can’t help but give credit where it’s due.
Here are the coolest book jackets we’ve received so far this year. Let us know what you think of them and tell us about any published since January 2011 that have cool book covers we should see.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/30/coolest-book-covers_n_887129.html#s300648&title=How_to_Live
