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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

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FantaSci Book Discussion

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
2026-07-28 19:00:00 2026-07-28 20:00:00 America/Chicago FantaSci Book Discussion Meet once a month to explore imagined worlds, epic adventures, and big ideas. Whether you're into dragons, deep space, dark magic, or rogue AI, you'll find good books and great conversation. Chicago Ridge Public Library - Large Study Room B

Tuesday, July 28
7:00pm - 8:00pm

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Chicago Ridge Public Library

Large Study Room B

Meet once a month to explore imagined worlds, epic adventures, and big ideas. Whether you're into dragons, deep space, dark magic, or rogue AI, you'll find good books and great conversation.

Charles Yu, time travel technician, helps save people from themselves in Minor Universe 31, a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" as his guide, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Discussions | Adult Programs |

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