Includes 'Story of Your Life' the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve.
With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose.
From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality. . . Chiang's rigorously imagined fantasia invites us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
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Made famous by 2016's "Arrival", Ted Chiang delivers a stunning collection of short stories that deals with emotions, humanity, the advent of technology, and the future of scientific rationalism. Told with gripping and vibrant prose, each story imparts a lesson about what it means to be a person. - Lewis (QBD)
Guest, 09/03/2021
