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| Title | : | Stories of Your Life and Others |
| Author | : | Ted Chiang |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 281 pages |
| Published | : | October 26th 2010 by Small Beer Press (first published July 2002) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Short Stories. Fiction. Fantasy |
Ted Chiang
ebook | Pages: 281 pages Rating: 4.26 | 55860 Users | 7168 Reviews
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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. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF.
Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer's stories so far-plus an eighth story written especially for this volume.
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Stories of your life . . . and others.
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| Original Title: | Stories of Your Life and Others |
| ISBN: | 0330426648 (ISBN13: 9780330426640) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novella for "Story of Your Life" (1999), Nebula Award for Best Novella for "Story of Your Life" (1999), Locus Award for Best Collection (2003), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2003), Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for "Story of Your Life" (1999) Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Nouvelle étrangère (2007), James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for "Story of Your Life" (1998), Asimov's Readers' Poll Award for Best Novelette (1992), HOMer Award Nominee for Best Novella for "Story of Your Life" (1998), SF ga Yomitai for Best Translated SF of the Year in Japan (2003), Seiun Award 星雲賞 for Best Translated Short Story for "Story of Your Life" (2002), Openbook好書獎 for 年度好書．翻譯書 (2017) |
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Ratings: 4.26 From 55860 Users | 7168 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books Stories of Your Life and Others
This is a story of love, and the devastating consequences of realising ones love object is not as perfect as one thought.The opening paragraph reads like a maths textbook and the second is set in a psychiatric hospital. Dont let either put you off. I married a man with a maths degree, and our child is now at university studying theoretical physics that is practically maths, but I am primarily a words person. This gave me a wonderful peek at the joy that can be found in numbers and patterns -Arrival by Ted Chiang is an ebook I picked up from the library because everyone was talking about the movie and I wanted to watch it but I like to read the books before seeing the movies, I have a thing about that. I didn't know this was a book of short stories. Again, I have a thing about not reading blurbs if I can help it in books I have already. (If I am looking for a book, that is different.) This book is not a novel but a lot of short stories. Each one is drastically different and each
Way to short.I liked the concept, but it was so short, I like big books....
3.5* for the 4 stories I readI am not the number 1 expert or fan of short stories so please take my review with a grain of salt. This is the first SF anthology that I read so I am basically a newbie in this genre. I will review 2-3 stories at the time as I am going through other books at the same time and I would not want to forget what I read. Tower of Babylon 2.5* As synopsis the story is about people in the Old Testament reality which are building a tower to heaven and a surprise waits when
I've been really wanting to reread one of the stories in this collection, "Story of Your Life," for ages, so when I realized this collection was available to borrow through my state's online library system, I grabbed it. "Story of Your Life" (the basis for the movie Arrival) didn't disappoint ... in fact, I thought it was absolutely brilliant. Chiang combines linguistics, psychology, and sociology with alien first contact. It blew my mind how well he did it.So I dove into the rest of this
These are amazing, more than 4 stars, and worth propping open on my steering wheel and glancing down to grab up a thought-ful of words at a time on straighaways and gentle curves.*As far as I can gather, Ted Chiang is an egghead scientist (technical writer?) who attended a fiction writing workshop and began belting out these incredibly well thought out short stories that have much more science than the typical science fiction. He's won enough awards that he once turned down a Hugo nomination for
The greatest living short story writer in my humble opinion.
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