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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 firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life, from a neural modification that eliminates the a...

An award-winning book from the author of Exhalation, this short story collection "blend[s] 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 TimesIncludes "Story of Your Life" the basis for the major motion picture ArrivalStories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakin...

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, GQTed Chiang has long been know...

Previously published as Stories of Your Life and OthersWith 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 firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday...

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Wat zou er gebeuren als we uit zouden vinden dat alle wetmatigheden uit de wiskunde eigenlijk willekeurig en inconsistent waren? Wat als we kennis zouden maken met een taal van buitenaardse wezens die onze perceptie van tijd voor altijd zou veranderen? Wat zou er gebeuren als we een toren van Babel zouden bouwen die echt tot in de hemel reikt? Dit soort vragen stelt Ted Chiang in zijn verhalen, die je nog lang aan het denken zetten. Ted Chia...

Lo studio di una lingua aliena, un ormone che aumenta l'intelligenza a dismisura, un mondo funestato dalle apparizioni angeliche, il mito della Torre di Babele e quello del "golem", una rivista scientifica del futuro, un ritocco al cervello che rende indifferenti rispetto alla bellezza, una rivoluzionaria dimostrazione matematica che finisce per negare il concetto stesso di matematica. Questi sono i soggetti degli otto racconti che hanno fatto...