Interior Chinatown A Novel by CharlesYu 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-307-90720-2, ISBN: 0-307-90720-1
"Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes--Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet."
"She lives with her husband, kid, cat, and dog in Pennsylvania. She is the author
of the novels Vengeance Bound, Promise of Shadows, and Dread Nation, a New
York Times bestselling novel. She is–with Troy L. Wiggins—the editor of FIYAH, ..."
"... to avoid being turned into a toad, and shortly thereafter the clerk carried a
packet of pins and three vials of lavender oil the three heathery miles from the
chandler's shop to the hut on Orion Waste. The white-haired crone who lived in
the hut opened the door, took the basket, and looked the clerk up and down. She
spat out a small object and said, “You will do.” “I beg your pardon?” “I have a
proposition for you,” the crone s ..."
Yeoman by CharlesYu 16 Pages, Published 2015 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-101-97007-2, ISBN: 1-101-97007-3
"Yeoman. We reached the final frontier today. Again. No one wants to be the first
to say it out loud, so it}s one of those things where we have cake and beer and
everyone mouth-smiles at each other while our eyes are all, does anyone even ..."
"Joe Hill, Jason Ciaramella, Neil Gaiman, Mort Castle, Audrey Niffeneffer, Harlan
Ellison, Sam Weller, Dave Eggers, Charles Yu, Alice Hoffman. HOMECOMING.
Mr. Bradbury's letter channeled by Sam Weller and Mort Castle From: Ray
Douglas Bradbury Date: April 15, 20150 To: All My Family ... were moments prior
to my “departure” from Earth in 2012 when I was not totally confident of my taking
up a new residence. ... All it is, however, is ..."
"51 science flash fiction stories from 51 authors that will transport you to other worlds. Over 250 pages of robot rebellions, alien pornography, high society cyborgs, orgasmic planets, space-time disruptions, and futures both likely and unlikely. New or previously uncollected work from Jonathan Lethem, Lynne Tillman, Charles Yu, Alissa Nutting, Ted Chiang, and many more. Hardcover with color interior art and a cover by Michael DeForge."
Sorry Please Thank You Stories by CharlesYu 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-90718-9, ISBN: 0-307-90718-X
"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."
"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."
"... of the chronodiegetic field, of the forces of physics in this science fictional
universe, the path and shape and limitations, ... the maximum, the defining
characteristic of an arc, that weightlessness is really the last second, tenth of a
second, the ..."
"It's like nothing else ever happens in the entire galaxy except whatever is going
on in a five-mile radius to make me feel bad about myself. There's the same old
story: ... I don't even want any- thing anymore. It's a bad place to be. The race may
..."