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Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that’s what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more.
Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.

From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here too. . . but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the highest aspiration he can imagine for a Chinatown denizen. Or is it?

After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he's ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family, and what that means for him, in today's America.

Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here too. . . but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the highest aspiration he can imagine for a Chinatown denizen. Or is it?

After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he's ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family, and what that means for him, in today's America.

Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

"Театр Теней Рэя Брэдбери" не просто собрание историй известных писателей — это их признание в любви, дань уважения единственному и неповторимому художнику слова Рэю Брэдбери, который подарил миру такие великие произведения, как "451 градус по Фаренгейту", "Марсианские хроники", "Вино из одуванчиков". История Нила Геймана рассказывает нам о человеке, который забыл великого мастера пера. В невероятном рассказе Джо Хилла, адаптированном Джейсоном Чарамеллой и Чарльзом Полом Уилсоном III, два подростка – Гейл и Джоэл – обнаруживают диковинное существо, и это событие, случившееся одним туманным днём у серебристых вод озера Шамплейн, навсегда изменит их жизнь. Галерею мистических событий продолжает биограф Брэдбери Сэм Уэллер в "Живи вечно!". Молодой репортёр Сэм встречается со своим кумиром и узнаёт страшную тайну…

The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.

A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to ask a coworker out on a date . . . A fighter leads his band of virtual warriors, thieves, and wizards across a deadly computer-generated landscape . . . A company outsources grief for profit, their tagline: "Don't feel like having a bad day? Let someone else have it for you." Drawing from both pop culture and science, Charles Yu is a brilliant observer of contemporary society, filling his stories with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and piercing insight into the human condition. He has already garnered comparisons to such masters as Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, and in Sorry Please Thank You, we have resounding proof of a major new voice in American fiction.

Даже капсулы машины времени иногда нуждаются в ремонте. Прощай, уют безвременья, закомплексованная, но очаровательная операционная система управляющего компьютера МИВВИ, в которую не влюбится только мертвый, и верный несуществующий пес Эд, выкинутый из сюжета космического вестерна и спасенный из черной дыры! Здравствуй, мегаполис, соединивший в себе Токио, Нью-Йорк, Лос-Анджелес и незапланированные хронопетли… Сколько можно стрелять в самого себя, выходящего из очередной машины времени? Сколько можно переписывать Книгу Ниоткуда и пытаться изменить то, что изменить невозможно? Сколько можно убеждать себя и прочие версии себя, что ты - не персонаж литературного произведения? Надо что-то делать. Но что?..

Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—in fact it may even save his life.

Юваль Ной Харари считает, что в начале 21 века самым важным художественным жанром является научная фантастика. «Она формирует понимание людьми наиболее важных технологических, социальных и экономических явлений нашего времени». В попытках представить, как будет выглядеть работа в далеком и не очень будущем, три автора написали рассказы на эту тему. 1:18 – «Ферма», 11:43 – «Плацебо», 19:50 – «Чувство долга», Перевод: Фёдор Гетманов. Редактура: Анастасия Железнякова, Александр Иванков

Юваль Ной Харари считает, что в начале 21 века самым важным художественным жанром является научная фантастика. «Она формирует понимание людьми наиболее важных технологических, социальных и экономических явлений нашего времени». В попытках представить, как будет выглядеть работа в далеком и не очень будущем, три автора написали рассказы на эту тему. 1:18 – «Ферма», 11:43 – «Плацебо», 19:50 – «Чувство долга», Перевод: Фёдор Гетманов. Редактура: Анастасия Железнякова, Александр Иванков