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Stories of Your Life and Others

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Stories of Your Life and Others

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Alternate Title: Arrival
Author: Ted Chiang
Publisher: Vintage, 2016
Small Beer Press, 2010
Tor, 2002
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Book Type: Collection
Genre: Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags: Theological
Human Development
Hard SF
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Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change--the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens--while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy. In the amazing and much-lauded title story, a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her knowledge of alien languages and non-linear memory recollection. A clever pastiche of news reports and interviews chronicles a college's initiative to "turn off" the human ability to recognize beauty in "Liking What You See: A Documentary." With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty and constant change, and also by beauty and wonder.

The collection received the Locus Award and the stories have received the Hugo, Seiun, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards.

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Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang

- valashain
  (4/24/2014)
Stories of Your Life and Others = Incredible

- spectru
  (8/16/2014)
Stories of Your Life and other disappointment...

- Bormgans
  (5/23/2015)
Arrival - Ted Chiang

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