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Stories of Your Life and Others

Name: Stories of Your Life and Others
Rating: 5 (13 reviews)
Author: Ted Chiang
ISBN: 9781101972120

Ted Chiang · 2010 · 285 pages

From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times).

A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years

Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic.

Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival

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Andrej Karpathy
“Quite great”↗
Naval Ravikant
“Love Ted Chiang, but don’t think he needs my ideas.”↗
Tim Ferriss
“I haven't read the bottom book, but the top three are all INCREDIBLE.”↗
Jia Tolentino
“When I first read this book, I was on an airplane, and I had a strange sensation: How could my brain and my heart be unfolding into a thousand different dimensions while my body is trapped in Seat 14C? Reading Chiang’s sci-fi feels like witnessing a miracle of applied grace.”↗
Daniel Zuker
“@Mikel_Jollett Collection of short stories by Ted Chiang "Stories of your Life and others." The movie "Arrival" was based on the title short story. Love this collection!”↗
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