Stories Of Your Life & Others

Paperback, 338 pages

en-Latn-US language

Published Jan. 1, 2020 by Picador.

ISBN:
9781529039436

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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.

Contents:

  • Tower of Babylon
  • Understand
  • Division by zero
  • Story of your life
  • Seventy-two letters
  • Evolution of human science
  • Hell is the absence of God
  • Liking what you see: a documentary.

2 editions

Subjects

  • DDC 813.6