How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

A guide to what you should see and what you should skip — and what you won't be able to avoid

Week of September 3

Charles Yu's marvel of a novel, which could have been written by Italo Calvino or Stanislaw Lem on a good day, tells the story of a small-time time-machine repairman whose job is to rescue people who travel back in their lives to try to fix what went wrong.

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