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ALSO BY CHARLES YU Third Class Superhero This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2010 by Charles Yu All rights reserved. Published in the Unites States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Original publication date in Minor Universe 31 is impossible to determine, due to the nature of residual objects within closed time-like structures. Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Yu, Charles, 2010 How to live safely in a science fictional universe: a novel / Charles Yu. p. cm. eISBN 978-0-307-37948-1 V.1.0 I. Title. PS3625.U15H68 2010 813’.6—dc222010001837 www.pantheonbooks.com First Edition To my mother and father, again. And again. And to Michelle, as ever. We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception. A man is a bun......