Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang
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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

This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers listeners the dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar.

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.

About Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang is a celebrated science fiction writer and the author of numerous short stories, including "Exhalation," which won the Hugo, British Science Fiction, and Locus awards. He is also the author of the novellas The Lifecycle of Software Objects and The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate. Ted lives near Seattle.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 10, 2017

Update: Saturday the 12th, November 2016 I just watched the movie The Arrival and OMG it was amazing. :) :) :) I cried. Like, a lot. I had chills and sat on the edge of my seat and I was totally engaged. What's worse? The personal aspects of the movie just blew me away. And even worse? The mental ones......more

Goodreads review by Blake on December 14, 2018

The greatest living short story writer in my humble opinion.......more

Goodreads review by Emily on May 01, 2018

I don't read very many short stories collection but after this one I feel like I now need to. This one contains the most mind bending and original sci-fi stories I've read in a while. My favorite what the last one!......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on August 01, 2022

Ted Chiang asks brilliant questions, of this there is no doubt. What if someone developed an undeniable proof that demonstrated that mathematics is unreliable? That everything we thought about geometry and physics was built on an inconsistent structure? What would that do to a brilliant, mathematical......more

Goodreads review by Candi on April 03, 2024

3.5 stars I don’t often read science fiction, and when I do, those I’ve chosen in the past are more appropriately labeled as speculative fiction. Stories that take place right here on our planet, without an alien being in sight. Or, if they do happen to occur in other worlds, what is being examined i......more