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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) |
Ted Chiang
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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.
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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| Title | : | Stories of Your Life and Others |
| Author | : | Ted Chiang |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 281 pages |
| Published | : | October 26th 2010 by Small Beer Press (first published July 2002) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Short Stories. Fiction. Fantasy |
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Loving ImperfectionsIf arithmetic were consistent, love could not exist. That is to say, if arithmetic were undeniably logical in its foundations, logic would rule the worild and love would be eliminated as the irrational thing it is. This is how I read the moral of Chiangs marvellous story.Mathematicians tend to view numbers as the natural constituents of the universe, existing independently in a Platonic realm of perfection. Such a universe is orderly, reliable and comprehensible even if it isReview once I'm home. For now, let's just say that the final story got me into trouble with some people at the train station. *lol*...Now that I've had some time to reflect on all the stories I've listened to in this collection, I can honestly say that not one was bad. Sure, three were rather mediocre, but the others were either at least good or even so exceptional that they made up for the mediocre ones without much effort.There are 8 short stories in this book:1) Tower of Babylon2) Understand
My introduction to the fiction of American author Ted Chiang comes with Stories of Your Life and Others, a 2002 collection of eight hard science fiction short stories published over the previous twelve years. My anticipation was to dust off one tale in particular, "Story of Your Life", the source material for a movie titled Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner that opens in the U.S. two months from the time I'm posting this book report. I dove into the collection due to Chiang's gift for
Update: Saturday the 12th, November 2016I just watched the movie The Arrival and OMG it was amazing. :) :) :)I cried. Like, a lot. I had chills and sat on the edge of my seat and I was totally engaged. What's worse? The personal aspects of the movie just blew me away. And even worse? The mental ones were profound and beautiful and amazing. :) I AM SQUEEEING!!!!Now here's the big question: Am I a fanboy because the movie only improved my appreciation of the original story? Or am I just blown away
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 -
Ted Chiang is a genius! This anthology is total brain candy. Although some of them are quite dense for my taste, it makes you think and re-read the paragraphs so that you can have a thorough grasp of what he's actually trying to say. Although this is tagged as "sci-fi", it lingers more on "hard science" since it discusses scientific theories and other jargons, which is also esoteric, by all means. "Tower of Babylon" - 5★Tower of Babel by lindbalkOh, dear miners and builders! For centuries, you
3.5 starsI dont often read science fiction, and when I do, those Ive chosen in the past are more appropriately labeled as speculative fiction. Stories that take place right here on our planet, sans aliens. Or, if they do happen to occur in other worlds, what is being examined is not so much the aliens themselves, but the nature of our own humanity in comparison to these other beings. These are the best kinds of stories, and Ive found some of my very favorites in this genre. Having once read a
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