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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, Tintuberg.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we need without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Sloverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today, my guest is Charles U.

His book is How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.

It's published by Pantheon.

What is time travel?

And, well, this book made me aware that anyone in a body is performing time travel.

And in a strange way, a book is a time machine.

As you read, you're being taken through time while staying in your own time.

It is in its own way a time machine.

So this book, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, is one which is going to

actually give you a kind of experience of time travel. Charlie U. seems to be an expert in the

mathematics behind the theories of time travel.

And so he's fashioned them into literary forms

to allow you to experience what happens

when you are, as the Fire Sign Theater used to say,

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