Audiobooks by Charles Yu

The Only Living Girl on Earth

From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future. Jane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t born on Earth, but her ancestors were; they lived there before the AI in charge of geoengineering failed and the oceans got too hot to sustain the terrestrial food web and before humans took off to colonize other planets. She’s heading to college on Jupiter in the fall of 3020, so her days on the home planet—selling “American Epoch” postcards, “History: The Poster!” and “War: The Soundtrack” to tourists from the suburbs of Europa—are numbered. But as the looping promotional ad for Earth details, in the planet’s more recent past there was an amusement park, a museum, and even a model American town to draw visitors: all shuttered now, abandoned. When a man and his son crash-land their rocket and need assistance, as well as some diversion, Jane learns that the other attractions on Earth are not so defunct after all and may have taken on a life of their own. Told, fittingly, in interconnected fragments, The Only Living Girl on Earth captures a place where only fragments of its landscape remain. At once dead serious and playful, recognizable and as otherworldly and unsettling as Yu’s other sci-fi reinventions, it is a cautionary tale about all that we could lose—are losing—by failing to live sustainably and about what we hope to leave behind for future generations. It is also a love letter to what it means to be human, how connected we are to a place and one another, and how we must fight to preserve these gifts. In this, Yu expresses his unique brand of cosmic humanism, that even in the face of dire circumstances, when we feel the most estranged from who and what we are, there is still hope.

Charles Yu (Author), Jesse Vilinsky (Narrator)

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The Only Living Girl on Earth

From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future. Jane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t born on Earth, but her ancestors were; they lived there before the AI in charge of geoengineering failed and the oceans got too hot to sustain the terrestrial food web and before humans took off to colonize other planets. She’s heading to college on Jupiter in the fall of 3020, so her days on the home planet—selling “American Epoch” postcards, “History: The Poster!” and “War: The Soundtrack” to tourists from the suburbs of Europa—are numbered. But as the looping promotional ad for Earth details, in the planet’s more recent past there was an amusement park, a museum, and even a model American town to draw visitors: all shuttered now, abandoned. When a man and his son crash-land their rocket and need assistance, as well as some diversion, Jane learns that the other attractions on Earth are not so defunct after all and may have taken on a life of their own. Told, fittingly, in interconnected fragments, The Only Living Girl on Earth captures a place where only fragments of its landscape remain. At once dead serious and playful, recognizable and as otherworldly and unsettling as Yu’s other sci-fi reinventions, it is a cautionary tale about all that we could lose—are losing—by failing to live sustainably and about what we hope to leave behind for future generations. It is also a love letter to what it means to be human, how connected we are to a place and one another, and how we must fight to preserve these gifts. In this, Yu expresses his unique brand of cosmic humanism, that even in the face of dire circumstances, when we feel the most estranged from who and what we are, there is still hope.

Charles Yu (Author), Jesse Vilinsky (Narrator)

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Interior Chinatown: A Novel

'One of the funniest books of the year has arrived, a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire.' -The Washington Post Named a Most Anticipated Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, The A.V. Club, Lit Hub, Woman's Day, The Rumpus, and more. 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. 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 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 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.

Charles Yu (Author), Joel De La Fuente (Narrator)

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Jak przeżyć w fantastycznonaukowym wszechświecie

Elektryzująco oryginalna powieść, która zakrzywia czas i wyobraźnię! Klienci firmy Time Warner Time każdego dnia wsiadają do wehikułów czasu i usiłują zrobić jedyną rzecz, której robić nie powinni: zmienić przeszłość. Gdy któryś z nich wpadnie w tarapaty, Charles Yu śpieszy mu z pomocą. Czyhające na samotnych seksboty, paradoksy skaczące jak ceny akcji na giełdzie, więżące nieuważnych podróżników pętle czasowe – na użytkowników komercyjnych wehikułów czeka wiele niebezpieczeństw. Wszystko to blednie jednak w porównaniu z kłopotami, w jakie wplątał się Yu. Zaczęło się od tego, że zastrzelił przyszłego siebie. Teraz, mając za towarzyszy: TAMMY, czyli popadający w depresję system operacyjny, oraz Eda, nieistniejącego, ale ontologicznie niesprzecznego psa, Charles spróbuje ocalić swoją przyszłość. Charles Yu (ur. 1976) - amerykański pisarz, z wykształcenia prawnik. W 2007 roku za zbiór opowiadań 'Third Class Superhero' został uhonorowany National Book Award jako jeden z pięciu najlepiej zapowiadających się twórców młodego pokolenia. W trzy lata później opublikował debiutancką powieść – 'Jak przeżyć w fantastycznonaukowym wszechświecie'. Książka jest nominowana do prestiżowej Nagrody im. Johna W. Campbella, regularnie pojawia się także we wszystkich zestawieniach najciekawszych powieści fantastycznych ostatnich lat.

Charles Yu (Author), Wojciech Masiak (Narrator)

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Sorry Please Thank You

New York Times Notable Book author Charles Yu wrote the best-selling novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. In his stunning, often humorous collection Sorry Please Thank You, Yu draws on pop culture and science to make incisive observations about society-and offer touching insight into the human condition. In two of Yu's remarkable stories, he focuses on a big-box-store night-shift employee with girl trouble and a company that outsources grief for profit.

Charles Yu (Author), A Full Cast, Various Narrators (Narrator)

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

In this fiercely original novel, Charles is a time-traveling repairman working in the off-kilter Minor Universe 31. He helps clients return to their biggest mistakes, which they incorrectly believe they can repair. But they can't-and that's bad news for Charles, who once accidentally ran into and shot his future self. "A triumph, as good as anything in Calvino or Stanislaw Lem. I wish I could travel back in time with a copy and fraudulently publish it under my own name."-Lev Grossman, New York Times best-selling author

Charles Yu (Author), James Yaegashi (Narrator)

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