Format: Paperback Publisher: Vintage favorite Add to wishlist Stories Of Your Life And Others 4,874 ratings arrowdropdown 4. In each story, with sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by wonder. Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang Buy Now Indiebound Publisher Vintage (Reissue) Date JFiction Speculative Story Collections The first short story collection from multiple award-winning science fiction writer Ted Chiang. Stories Of Your Life And Others ISBN: 1101972122 EAN13: 9781101972120 Language: English Release Date: Pages: 304 Dimensions: 1.02' H x 7.95' L x 5.2' W Weight: 0.71 lbs. In “Understand,” a young man has an amazing reaction to an experimental drug used to heal brain damage. In “Liking What You See: A Documentary,” a clever pastiche of news reports and interviews chronicle a college’s initiative to turn off the human ability to recognize beauty. In the amazing and much-lauded “Story of Your Life,” a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her new knowledge of an alien language and its nonlinear structure. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change.

The lead story in the collection will soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams, while another story has been optioned by Fox and is in development. Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of masterpieces and recently it has taken Hollywood by storm. Chiang has acquired a massive reputation on the basis. Heres the first must-read SF book of the year. Includes Story of Your Lifethe basis for the major motion picture Arrival. I always suggest a person read at least fifty-two books a year for proper mental functioning but if you only have time for one, be at peace: you found it.”-Junot Díaz An award-winning collection from one of todays most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic.

“Ted Chiang is so exhilarating, so original, so stylish he just leaves you speechless.

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