This book is absorbing, entertaining, confusing, bewildering, and unique. In How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, our hero travels through time and space with his virtual dog, Ed, who isn't real, doesn't eat or drink, but other than that is a completely loyal and faithful dog. He and Ed travel in TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem.
In our hero's universe, time travel exists and science fictional universes and combined real/science fictional universes exist side by side. Our hero is a time travel technician who fixes time machines and prevents time travelers from making serious mistakes, such as slipping into alternate universes where they don't exist or becoming their own uncles or ending up as their own sisters.
But some events in time just can't be changed. As our hero says, "The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, now matter how hard you try, you can't change the past
Our hero takes us on a wild and crazy search for his father who has disappeared. His father had the idea for time travel, but never got the credit for it. As we travel on a journey where our hero meets his "should have been" mother in a Buddhist temple that exists out of time and space and even gets shot in the stomach by himself, we start to explore what time means, what our lives mean, what reality is, and what really matters most to us.
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