Sorry please thank you /
Yu, Charles, 1976-
Sorry please thank you / Charles Yu. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2012. - 222 p. ; 21 cm.
Sorry. Standard loneliness package ; First person shooter ; Troubleshooting -- Please. Hero absorbs major damage ; Human for beginners ; Inventory ; Open ; Note to self -- Thank you. Yeoman ; Designer emotion ; The book of categories ; Adult contemporary -- All of the above. Sorry please thank you.
"Drawing from both pop culture and science, Charles Yu is an observer of contemporary society, and in Sorry Please Thank You he fills his stories with equal parts humor and insight into the human condition. 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"--From publisher description.
0307907171 9780307907172
2011049487
Short stories, American.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Sorry please thank you / Charles Yu. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2012. - 222 p. ; 21 cm.
Sorry. Standard loneliness package ; First person shooter ; Troubleshooting -- Please. Hero absorbs major damage ; Human for beginners ; Inventory ; Open ; Note to self -- Thank you. Yeoman ; Designer emotion ; The book of categories ; Adult contemporary -- All of the above. Sorry please thank you.
"Drawing from both pop culture and science, Charles Yu is an observer of contemporary society, and in Sorry Please Thank You he fills his stories with equal parts humor and insight into the human condition. 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"--From publisher description.
0307907171 9780307907172
2011049487
Short stories, American.
Science fiction.
Short stories.