

Stories of Your Life and Others
Author: Ted Chiang
Narrator: Abby Craden, Todd McLaren
Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 02/10/2014
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Synopsis
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 (the basis for the 2016 movie Arrival), 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.