La historia de tu vida

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF.

Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer's stories so far--plus an eighth story written especially for …

Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer's stories so far--plus an eighth story written especially for this volume.

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven--and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Stories of your life . . . and others.

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Hardcover, 240 pages

Published by Alamut.

ISBN:: 978-84-9889-118-8
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Feroand@bookwyrm.social reviewed Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

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3.5 stars

Her antolojide olduğu gibi içerisinde harika, idare eder, olmasa zamanım gitmezdi formunda hikayeler vardı. Ancak, hemen hemen her birisi bir takım enteresan sorular sordurtmayı başardı.

technicat@bookwyrm.social reviewed Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

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My favorite part of this collection is the end notes where the author explains where he got the idea for each story, which is not to put down the stories themselves, but more than most sci-fi, his stories are about ideas. Sci-fi generally is not short of ideas, but typically you can read a story, even a rollicking good one, and think "I could have written that" (ignoring the fact that you didn't), but at the end of each story here, I thought there's no way I would have thought of that.

So the strength is not so much in the characters, it's hard to find any of them really relatable, but some of the stories are moving nonetheless, particularly in the flagship Stories of Your Life, which I now appreciate the movie adaption, Arrival (not the other alien movie The Arrival with Charlie Sheen which actually not bad), did a very good adaptation of, somehow replacing it while retaining the tone. And there's one story that looks like Cixin Liu cribbed the idea in his trilogy without crediting it (maybe not, but I was only a Cixin Liu fan during that brief time between reading his books and reading his interview where he endorsed rounding up Uyghurs).

Dustin

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Oct. 11, 2020