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Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Start date: March 1, 2013

Finish date: March 31, 2013

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Jun 30, 2016 Bee rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, audiobook, favourite, classic-sci-fi, short-storie, recommended-to-me, philosophical-science-fiction

This is the best short story collection I've ever read. Nine of the eleven stories are so remarkable that they sat with me for days after listening to them. I think they will be with me always.

Each story has the hallmarks of a great story. A fascinating idea/concept, taken apart and put into a simulacrum of the real world, and then a story is build around and through and past it. Each idea sinks into your mind to gestate.

He changes genre like others change log in passwords. Fantasy, Victorian ...more

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Dec 05, 2016 Andrew rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-fi-and-fantasy, philosophy, short-fiction

A fascinating collection of contemporary fiction suffused with themes regarding our future, language, technology, or the natural consequence of current social ideas. One entry, “The Story of Your Life” is a brilliant meditation on language and perception of time (I daresay the silver screen has even improved upon it with “Arrival”).

Even stronger still is a story in which the text is the dialogue from a documentary chronicling the introduction of “calliagnosia” in a fictional American university ...more

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Jan 22, 2018 Mark Yashar rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Originally Published as "Stories of Your Life and Others" in 2002, the book consists of 8 short stories, including "Story of Your Life", which is the basis of the 2016 movie "Arrival". Wouldn't be surprised if more of these stories were adapted into movies in the future.

Four stars -- strongly recommended. ...more

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