Stories of Your Life and Othersis a collection ofshort storiesby American writerTed Chiang[1]published in 2002 byTor Books.It collects Chiang's first eight stories. All of the stories except "Liking What You See: A Documentary" were previously published individually elsewhere.
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| Author | Ted Chiang |
|---|---|
| Original title | Stories of Your Life and Others |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Tor Books |
Publication date | July 2002 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 333 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-7653-0418-X(first edition, hardback) |
| 813/.6 | |
It was reprinted in 2016 asArrivalto coincide with the adaptation of "Story of Your Life"as the filmArrival.[2][3]Chiang's second collection,Exhalation: Storieswas released in 2019.[4]
Contents
edit- "Tower of Babylon"(originally published inOmni,November 1990) (Nebula Awardwinner)
- "Understand"(originally published inAsimov's,August 1991)
- "Division by Zero"(originally published inFull Spectrum 3,June 1991)
- "Story of Your Life"(originally published inStarlight 2,November 1998) (Nebula AwardandTheodore Sturgeon Memorial Awardwinner)
- "Seventy-Two Letters"(originally published inVanishing Acts,June 2000) (Sidewise Awardwinner)
- "The Evolution of Human Science"(originally published as" Catching Crumbs from the Table "inNature,June 2000)
- "Hell Is the Absence of God"(originally published inStarlight 3,July 2001) (Hugo Award,Locus AwardandNebula Awardwinner)
- "Liking What You See: A Documentary"
- "Story Notes" (story collection essay)
Reception
editAccording toBook Marks,the book received "rave" reviews based on four critic reviews with four being "rave".[5]
Reviewing the book at theSF Site,Greg L. Johnson said that this collection shows why Chiang's stories continue to win awards. Johnson wrote that "it will not take readers new to these stories very long to appreciate their quality and beauty".[6]He added that science fiction relies on short fiction writers to "examine new ideas and push the boundaries of the field", and Chiang has demonstrated he is "more than up to that task".[6]
English fantasy authorChina Miévillewrote in a review inThe Guardianthat Chiang's stories in this collection "unfold with a logic that is ineluctable and compassionate". Here "humanism is inextricable from rationalism", and "it is the rationalism of the characters – and the writer – that makes them emotional and human". Miéville further said that despite the extensive use of mathematics, physics and language in the stories, they are infused with a "profound humanism" that makes "the most abstruse philosophical conjectures... resonant and emotional".[7]
The GuardianrankedStories of Your Life and OthersNo.80 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.[8]
References
edit- ^"Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang".Goodreads.goodreads.Retrieved23 March2016.
- ^"ARRIVAL (STORIES OF YOUR LIFE MTI)".Chapters-Indigo.Retrieved30 November2016.
- ^Ted Chiang (2016).Arrival: originally published as – Stories Of Your Life And Others.Doubleday.ISBN978-0525433675.
- ^"Exhalation: Stories".Publishers Weekly.Retrieved20 May2019.
- ^"Stories of Your Life and Others".Book Marks.Retrieved17 February2024.
- ^abJohnson, Greg L. (2004)."Stories of Your Life and Others".SF Site.RetrievedMarch 12,2017.
- ^Miéville, China(April 24, 2004)."Stories of Your Life".The Guardian.RetrievedMarch 10,2017.
- ^"The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century".The Guardian.21 September 2019.RetrievedDecember 8,2019.
External links
edit- Stories of Your Life and Otherstitle listing at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database