I. O9 presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Brought to you by Brilliant's Audio.

And here are your hosts.

John Joseph Adams and David Far McCarthy.

Hello and welcome to episode 24 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Hi, this is John Joseph Adams.

I'm the editor of several anthologies such as

Wastelands and The Living Dead. My latest books are The Living Dead too and

the Way of the Wizard and I also edit the magazine's Light Speed and Fantasy magazine.

And I'm David Bar-Kirtley.

My short stories appear in books such as New Voices in Science Fiction and Fantasy the Best of the Year.

And my nose stories are Cats and Victory in Light Speed. The Skullface City of the short story collection Third Class Superhero and the novel

How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe.

In 2007 he was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its five most promising writers

under 35.

And here's a description of the novel.

This is from Lev Grossman's Amazon.com review.

He says,

The hero of this story, also named Charles Yu, heeks out a living as a time travel repairman.

Charles is a high-tech sad-sac whose only companions are a dog who's mostly hypothetical

and a computer with a sexy feminine AI interface that you has a crush on.

Human beings mostly use time machines to go back and eavesdrop on their own screwed up lives,

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