Stories of Your Life and Others
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From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times).Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change--the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens--with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes "Story of Your Life"--the basis for the major motion picture Arrival
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I’m just reviewing the story that arrival was based on, for a book club that a member who will go unnamed has turned into a movie club featuring occasional book. Anyway.
This story was going for profound and landed on clever, which I won’t hold against it. I enjoyed the book, but found it to be shallow.
The author explores humans penchant for cause and effect and does so by introducing an alien species whose customs differ from our own, in parti...read more
This story was going for profound and landed on clever, which I won’t hold against it. I enjoyed the book, but found it to be shallow.
The author explores humans penchant for cause and effect and does so by introducing an alien species whose customs differ from our own, in parti...read more
Fascinating. Thought-provoking. Diverse. This collection of short stories is quite simply brilliant. They are each so different from the others and all well crafted and intriguing. From the opening "Tower of Babylon" which reads like a parable, to "The Story of your life" which is the basis for the movie _Arrival_, to a period piece that feels like HG Wells "72 letters", to a futuristic, slightly dystopic examination of self worth and love in...read more
- read bc of Arrival (dir. Dennis Villenueve)
- amazing & thought-provoking reads
- my favorite was The Story of Your Life, but i honestly would recommend all of them
- amazing & thought-provoking reads
- my favorite was The Story of Your Life, but i honestly would recommend all of them
I read this collection because I found it for $1 and then I fell in love with the title story. Only later did I realize that the title story has been made into a movie. I'm afraid to watch the movie though in case it's more upsetting than the story.
Whew, this was painful to finish. After getting through the first couple of stories with obnoxious narrators, I was hoping the short story format meant new chances for character development to improve. Alas, it never did, dialogue never got less gratuitously technical, and I had to force myself not to DNF all the way to the end.
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