Yeoman

Authors: Yu, Charles
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC029000
ISBN: 9781101970072, Related ISBNs: 1101970073, 9781101970072
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 16,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
 
Who explores the final frontier? The ship has reached the last world.  Beamed down from the transporter bay is the captain, the XO, the medic, the security chief, the ethnographer, and finally an unnamed yeoman, the narrator of Charles Yu’s mind-bending journey into the science fiction unknown. And the yeoman knows one thing, if he knows anything at all: the yeoman always dies.
 
In the tradition of Jonathan Lethem and Douglas Adams, National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award winner Charles Yu presents a story of searching (not wandering) and the galactic limits of home, from the utterly original collection Sorry Please Thank You.

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