Charles Yu

"From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."--

Interior Chinatown

In a world transformed by time-travel technology, counselor Charles Yu searches for the father who invented time travel and vanished, a quest marked by quirky pseudo-companions. A first novel by the award-winning author of the collection, Third Class Superhero.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Presents a collection of stories featuring a retail employee who is confronted by a zombie, a computer warrior who leads his fighter band across a virtual landscape, and a company that outsources grief.

Stories

Sorry Please Thank You

The Only Living Girl on Earth

John Joseph Adams

A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories from 2016

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

Only Living Girl on Earth

Charlie Jane Anders

Lesley Nneka Arimah

A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance, editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom, love, and justice. They asked for narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths, release us from the chokehold of our history, and give us new futures to believe in. They also asked that the stories be badass. The result is this spectacular collection of twenty-five tales that blend the dark and the light, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship—whether it’s the othered and the terrorized, or dragonriders and covert commandos—but these characters don’t flee, they fight. Thrilling, inspiring, and a sheer joy to read, A People’s Future of the United States is a gift for anyone who believes in our power to dream a just world. Featuring stories by Violet Allen • Charlie Jane Anders • Lesley Nneka Arimah • Ashok K. Banker • Tobias S. Buckell • Tananarive Due • Omar El Akkad • Jamie Ford • Maria Dahvana Headley • Hugh Howey • Lizz Huerta • Justina Ireland • N. K. Jemisin • Alice Sola Kim • Seanan McGuire • Sam J. Miller • Daniel José Older • Malka Older • Gabby Rivera • A. Merc Rustad • Kai Cheng Thom • Catherynne M. Valente • Daniel H. Wilson • G. Willow Wilson • Charles Yu

Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

A People's Future of the United States

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play—by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that’s what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more. Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.

Interior Chinatown: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2020

A volume of short works includes "Third Class Superhero," in which a would-be good guy confronts the darkness in his heart; "401(k)," in which a couple is disappointed by the sales pitch accompanying their luxury vacation; and "Autobiographical Raw Material Unsuitable for the Mining of Fiction," a profile of the author's mother. A first collection. Original.

Third Class Superhero

Dave Eggers

Neil Gaiman

Eddie Campbell

Joe Hill

Jason Ciaramella

Alice Hoffman

Harlan Ellison

Matthew Dow Smith

Sam Weller

Mort Castle

Maria Frohlich

Mark Sexton

Charles Paul Wilson, III

Audrey Niffeneffer

In Shadow Show, acclaimed writers and artists such as Joe Hill, Mort Castle, Audrey Niffeneffer, Charles Paul Wilson III, Maria Frohlich, Eddie Campbell, Neil Gaiman, and more come together to pay tribute to the work of the one and only Ray Bradbury. In this collection are stories based on "By The Silver Water of Lake Champlain," "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury," "Backward in Seville," "Weariness," "Live Forever!," "Who Knocks?," "Earth (A Gift Shop)," "Altenmoor, Where the Dogs Dance," and "Conjure."

Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury

Shadow Show

Standard Loneliness Package from the Collection Sorry Please Thank You

Fable

Systems

This enhanced eBook includes video, audio, photographic, and linked content, as well as a bonus short story. Hear TAMMY talk. Learn the origins of Minor Universe 31. See the TM-31. Take a trip in it. Photos and illustrations appear as hyperlinked endnotes. Video and audio are embedded directly in text. *Video and audio may not play on all readers. Check your user manual for details. National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—in fact it may even save his life. Wildly new and adventurous, Yu’s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space–time.

A Novel

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition)

Chinatown interiore

Cosa succede quando non sei il protagonista della tua vita ma una semplice comparsa? Willis Wu vive in un piccolo appartamento a CHINATOWN e tutti i giorni si reca al TEMPIO D’ORO, un ristorante cinese adibito a set cinematografico dove viene girata la serie poliziesca Bianca e Nero. Ma Willis non è l’attore principale, le regole di Hollywood prevedono per lui, di origine asiatica, solo parti di contorno, dal fattorino delle consegne al cameriere. Willis lotta per farsi strada nella serie, il suo sogno è diventare il Fenomeno del kung fu, il ruolo più importante che un orientale possa interpretare, quello a cui tutti ambiscono. Ma è veramente così? È quello il massimo a cui può aspirare, nella serie come nella vita? Willis si troverà ad affrontare un mondo più grande e complesso di quello della CHINATOWN dov’è cresciuto, scoprirà le origini di quel luogo e le radici della sua famiglia fino a interrogarsi su cosa voglia dire veramente fare la comparsa in una vita che fatica ad accettarlo. Charles Yu costruisce un romanzo che scorre tra serie TV e kung fu, ironico e sorprendente come un film di Tarantino, per raccontare la storia di un protagonista che vuole integrarsi in un mondo dalle regole spietate. Un romanzo sulla ricerca di se stessi oltre il ruolo che ci è stato imposto, divertente, feroce, commovente.

Bruce K. Waltke

An Old Testament theology by a leading Old Testament scholar who combines a technical with a spiritual understanding of the Old Testament.

An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach

An Old Testament Theology

Jonathan Maberry

Becky Chambers

Tobias S. Buckell

Cadwell Turnbull

Jeffrey Ford

Seanan McGuire

E. Lily Yu

Dexter Palmer

Theodora Goss

Kate Elliott

Carrie Vaughn

Genevieve Valentine

James L. Cambias

Darcie Little Badger

C. C. Finlay

An Owomoyela

From the legends of Atlantis, El Dorado, and Shangri-La to classic novels such as King Solomon's Mine, The Land That Time Forgot, and The Lost World, readers have long been fascinated by the idea of lost worlds and mythical kingdoms. Read short stories featuring the discovery of such worlds or kingdoms--stories where scientists explore unknown places, stories where the discovery of such turns the world on its head, stories where we're struck with the sense of wonder at realizing that we don't know our world quite as well as we'd thought. Featuring new tales by today's masters of SF&F: Tobias S. Buckell James L. Cambias Becky Chambers Kate Elliott C.C. Finlay Jeffrey Ford Theodora Goss Darcie Little Badger Jonathan Maberry Seanan McGuire An Owomoyela Dexter Palmer Cadwell Turnbull Genevieve Valentine Carrie Vaughn Charles Yu E. Lily Yu

Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms

Ken Liu

John Adams

Sofia Samatar

Adam-Troy Castro

Sam Miller

Lightspeed Magazine

Maria Headley

Charlie Anders

A. Merc Rustad

In the pages of Lightspeed Magazine, you will find the finest science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.Issue #1 was launched in June 2010, and now eight years later, we've reached a milestone: Issue 100. To celebrate, we decided to publish a super-sized issue, with ten original stories-more than twice the amount of original fiction than usual-plus ten reprints and some special nonfiction to boot. And to make things even more commemorative, the vast majority of our fiction in this issue, both original and reprint, comes from our most frequently published fiction contributors-the Lightspeediest writers to ever Lightspeed. It's a distillation of what we're made of, and we're beyond excited to share it with all of you.Featuring work by Vylar Kaftan, Carrie Vaughn, Adam-Troy Castro, A. Merc Rustad, Ken Liu, Sofia Samatar, Charles Yu, Caroline M. Yoachim, An Owomoyela, Seanan McGuire, David Barr Kirtley, Genevieve Valentine, Cadwell Turnbull, Yoon Ha Lee, Maria Dahvana Headley, Sam J. Miller, Kat Howard, Theodora Goss, Charlie Jane Anders, Jeremiah Tolbert, and more.

Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018

Acclaimed writers and artists come together to pay tribute to the one and only Ray Bradbury in these adaptations of nine short stories such as ''By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain,'' ''The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury,'' ''Backward in Seville,'' and more.

Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury

Charles Yu

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