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Sorry Please Thank You
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Charles Yu
Subgenres:
- Short Story Collection,
- Humorous Science Fiction,
- Satirical Science Fiction,
- Virtual Reality,
- Zombies
This book is for you if you're into...
- Sci-fi short stories that blend absurd humor with real emotion
- Satirical takes on tech, work, and modern loneliness
- Offbeat scenarios like grief outsourcing and zombie encounters at work
From the National Book Award–winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes 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. 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.
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