Charles Yu writes science fiction, but he does it by taking science fiction apart, turning all the pieces around, then putting them back together so it’s 2,000 percent weirder, smarter, more meaningful, and more fuel-efficient than it was before. He is the author of the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and the short-story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. Also, he’s a lawyer or something.