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Sorry Please Thank You
| Author: | Charles Yu |
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Pantheon Books, 2012 Vintage, 2012 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
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, but does he have what it takes to be a hero?... A company outsources grief for profit, its slogan: "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, and in Sorry Please Thank You he fills 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 this new collection we have resounding proof that he has arrived (via a wormhole in space-time) as a major new voice in American fiction.
Table of Contents:
- Standard Loneliness Package - (2010) - novelette
- First Person Shooter - (2012) - short story
- Troubleshooting - (2012) - short story
- Hero Absorbs Major Damage - (2012) - novelette
- Human for Beginners - (2012) - short story
- Inventory - (2012) - novelette
- Open - (2012) - short story
- Note to Self - (2012) - short story
- Yeoman - (2012) - short story
- Designer Emotion 67 - (2012) - short story
- The Book of Categories - (2011) - short story
- Adult Contemporary - (2012) - short story
- Sorry Please Thank You - (2012) - short story
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