Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)

by Ted Chiang

Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve.

“A swell movie adaptation always sends me to the source material, so Arrival had me pick up Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others: lean, relentless, and incandescent.” —Colson Whitehead, GQ

Ted Chiang has long been known as one of the most powerful science fiction writers working today. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Arrival presents characters who must confront sudden change. In "Story of Your Life," which provides the basis for the film Arrival, alien lifeforms suddenly appear on Earth. When a linguist is brought in to help communicate with them and discern their intentions, her new knowledge of their language and its nonlinear structure allows her to see future events and all the joy and pain they may bring. In each story of this incredible collection, with sharp intelligence and humor, Ted Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by wonder.

• ISBN10: 0525433678
• ISBN13: 9780525433675
• Publish Date: 1 November 2016
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Vintage Books
• Edition: Media tie-in
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 304
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780525433675

Reviews

[lisacee]

One short story in this collection inspired the movie Arrival, which I greatly enjoyed, but this book us far more than that.

I found nearly all of these stories thought provoking. It took me so long to read it because I was savoring the different worlds that Ted Chiang created in these stories.

I often do like like short stories because they don't give me a complete story, just a glimpse into a life. But these stories feel complete, though they are rarely finished in a cut and dry manner. Chiang leaves enough up to the reader for them to fill in any blanks in the stories he's created.

[neddieb]

So when I saw the previews for Arrival, I wanted to read the book. I found the book and realized that it's actually a book of short stories, and not a book based only on the movie Arrival.

Nevertheless, I bought the book and began reading it. I don't regret it. The stories are very well written and keep you entertained. You want to keep reading because you get anxious to see how the story ends. However, these stories are very complex for my level of intelligence. I dont understand physics, mathematics and basically science. Those suits are not my forte. So, why did I give it a four star, well because just because I don't understand how the world of science and universe works doesn't mean that you have to give it a bad rating.