![]() ![]() Everything you need for every book you read. ![]() ![]() ‘United by a humane intelligence that speaks very directly to the reader, and makes us experience each story with immediacy and Chiang’s calm passion. Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang Upgrade to A + Intro Plot Summary Summary & Analysis Themes Quotes Characters Symbols Theme Wheel Teachers and parents Struggling with distance learning Our Teacher Edition on Story of Your Life can help. The science fiction novella ‘Story of Your Life’ is the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival. Louise Banks is narrating to her unborn daughter the story of how she will come to be conceived. ![]() His novelette 'The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate' was also published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. With Stories of Your Life and Others, 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.įrom a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament 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 fantasias invite us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it. Chiangs first eight stories are collected in 'Stories of Your Life, and Others' (1st US hardcover ed: ISBN 0-7653-0418-X 1st US paperback ed.: ISBN 0-7653-0419-8). ![]()
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