Item: Arrival
Rating: 4.00
Author: neddieb

by Ted Chiang

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others

With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose.

From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the heavens above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality. . .

Chiang's rigorously imagined fantasia invites us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it.

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.

Arrival

by Ted Chiang

Reviewed by neddieb on Nov 12, 2016

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