Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

Here are eight astonishing science-fiction stories that explore the boundaries between science and religion, between determinism and our ability to choose, between words and the entities they describe. Here are stories of conceptual breakthrough...of making sense of the universe and our place in it. 'What a pleasure it is to read Chiang...Can he be the best SF writer to come down the pike in the past thirty years? I honestly believe that he is' Harry Harrison 'Superb and thought-provoking. I could run out of superlatives trying to describe Chiang's work. Stories of Your Life is the best collection of short stories, novellas and novelettes I have ever read...Ted Chiang will blow you away with this astonishing collection' The Alien Online

• ISBN10: 0330426648
• ISBN13: 9780330426640
• Publish Date: 21 January 2005 (first published 5 July 2002)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 2 April 2009
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Imprint: Tor
• Edition: Unabridged edition
• Format: Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[pamela]

Hell is the Absence of God and Story of Your Life are possibly two of the best short stories I've ever read. Everything in this collection means something, and the language choices are very deliberate. These stories are not to be read while distracted. They take profound amounts of concentration. It's High-Concept, unique, diverse, and most of all, and exploratory collection about the human condition.

[remo]

Magnífica colección de historias de CF. Todas tienen un algo que te descoloca mentalmente, como cuando uno se acerca a Greg Egan. La historia en que se basa la peli de "la llegada" (que no he visto) es fantástica en la parte de la ciencia, pero la parte emocional fue la que menos me gustó del libro. La de la matemática que descubre un teorema que no querría descubrir es maravillosa. "Babel" es hipnótica. "Understand" te agarra y no te suelta. La de la caliagnosia es un desborde de fuerza del autor, que hace un documental con decenas de puntos de vista sobre un asunto que es ciencia ficción.
Salvo una o dos que me dejaron un poco meh, el resto son material de primerísima calidad. Absolutamente recomendable.

[arronkau]

A collection of wonderful short stories, full of startling ideas, beautifully explored. This sort of stuff is why I read Sci-Fi.