'United by a humane intelligence that speaks very directly to the reader, and makes us experience each story with immediacy and Chiang's calm passion. American Science Fiction writer Ted Chiang is perhaps the antithesis to the prolific writer figure having published only 14 short stories and novellas in his Papercuts reportage editor Pooja Pande and spec-fic writer Usman T. The science fiction novella 'Story of Your Life' is the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival. The science fiction novella Story of Your Life is the basis for the. With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose.įrom a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality, Chiang's rigorously imagined fantasias invite us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it. A short story collection by the multiple-award-winning SF author Ted Chiang.

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