Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times).

Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic.

Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival

• ISBN10: 1101972122
• ISBN13: 9781101972120
• Publish Date: 14 June 2016 (first published 5 July 2002)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Vintage Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 304
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781101972120

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.