While the plot zigs and zags and rab­bit punches your medulla with math­e­mat­i­cal con­structs and terms such as “Weinberg-Takayama Radius,” at the cen­tre there is a very lonely story of one boy’s long­ing to recon­nect with his father, and a very human search for the self. How to Live Safely in a Sci­ence Fic­tional Uni­verse is brainy, com­plex, utterly ridicu­lous, intel­lec­tu­ally demand­ing, very funny, and wholly remarkable.

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