Full of remarkable ideas and unforgettable moments, Stories of Your Life and Others is highly recommended. Chiang has the gift that lies at the heart of good science fiction: a human story, beautifully told, in which the science is an expression of the deeper issues that the characters must confront. Story of Your Life TED CHIANG Ted Chiang has only published three SF stories prior to this one and his first, Tower of.
I bought this after seeing Arrival in order to take a look at the story on which the film is.
Standouts include "Tower of Babylon," in which a miner ascends the fabled tower in order to break through the vault of heaven "Division by Zero," a precise and heartbreaking examination of the disintegration of hope and love and "Story of Your Life," in which a linguist learns an alien language that reshapes her view of the world. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know. Ted Chiang Stories of Your Life & Others Audio Book. Ted Chiang's first published story, 'Tower of Babylon,' won the Nebula Award in 1990.Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history.
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This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, 'Stories of Your Life and Others,' includes his first eight published stories plus the author's story notes and a cover that the author commissioned himself. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moores cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers listeners the dual delights of the very, very strange and the. This marvelous collection by one of science fiction's most thoughtful and graceful writers belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in literary science fiction.Ĭollected here for the first time, Ted Chiang's award-winning stories-recipients of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Campbell, and Asimov awards-offer a feast of science, speculation, humanity, and lyricism. Small Beer Press, 2010 - Fiction - 281 pages. This new edition of Ted Chiangs masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories.