Happy birthday to American writer Charles Yu, born on this day January 3, 1976 in Los Angeles, California. Yu’s works span from fiction to science fiction to experimental fiction to non-fiction, and his most well-known books include How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010) and Interior Chinatown (2020).
“Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It’s just that most people’s time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.”
-Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe