Sorry Please Thank You: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with 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. He has already garnered comparisons to such masters as Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, and 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.

• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
• Stories of Your Life and Others
• Museum of the Weird
• "They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, with 2016 MLA Update (Third Edition)
• Third Class Superhero
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
• Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (The Best American Series ®)
• The Safety of Objects: Stories
• Gutshot: Stories
• Reading and Writing About Literature