How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu 239 pp.
The main character of this story is Charles Yu who lives in Minor Universe 31 where he works as a time travel repair technician. He spends his non-working hours visiting his mother who lives in a time loop of endless Sunday dinners and searching for his lost father who is somewhere in time. His working hours are spent in his time travel vehicle with an operating system with low self-esteem and a "weird ontological entity" that looks and acts like a dog. He has job security because what people want to do is go back in time to their worst moment and with the idea that they can change it. The mostly sci-fi related amusing one-liners make this existential journey a fun read.
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