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Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others
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Paul Perry
Sep 03, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: short-stories, male-author, fiction, favorites, sf, collection, read-in-2014
I've been meaning to read this collection for a couple of years, ever since hearing 'Understand' read on BBC Radio 4, and my only regret is that it has taken me so long to get around to it. To follow are reviews of the highlights, although all the stories were excellent.



From the first story, 'Tower of Babylon', I knew I was in for a rare treat. This is simply superb science fiction - told from the point of view of the science and technology of the time. It imagines an impossibly tall tower built ...more
7 likes ·   · see review
Joe
Oct 22, 2016 rated it liked it
Twisted and bizarre, just like the rest of Ted Chiang's work. ...more
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Monica Noel Matthews
Jan 03, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fantasy-by-poc, predictive-lit
Ted Chiang is my new obsession. 😊
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Christine
Sep 18, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favorites, sf
Vittoria
Mar 13, 2017 rated it liked it
Joe
Jan 19, 2014 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
Jennifer
Jul 13, 2014 marked it as to-read
Peter Tillman
Dec 03, 2015 rated it really liked it
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Jan 22, 2016 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2015
Toby
Sep 28, 2016 marked it as to-read
Suki St Charles
Feb 13, 2017 marked it as to-read
Canavan
Feb 26, 2017 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: sss-2023
Veronika Červencová
Mar 26, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Allie
Jul 08, 2018 marked it as to-read
Danyel
Mar 25, 2019 marked it as to-read
Shelves: shorts
Maddie
Sep 03, 2019 marked it as to-read
Rob Dircks
Nov 13, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Marc Jackson
Aug 18, 2021 marked it as to-read
Zak
Aug 22, 2021 marked it as to-read
Rachel
Mar 08, 2022 marked it as poetry-essays-and-short-stories
Shelves: instrument-of-mercy-rec-list, fantasy, science-fiction
Melissa
Mar 03, 2024 rated it it was amazing
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