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Stories of your life and others / Ted Chiang.

By: Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016Edition: First Vintage Books editionDescription: 281 pages 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781101972120 (paperback)
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Stories of your life and othersDDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3603.H53 A6 2016
Other classification:
  • FIC028000 | FIC029000
Contents:
Tower of Babylon -- Understand -- Division by Zero -- Story of Your Life -- Seventy-Two Letters -- The Evolution of Human Science -- Hell is the Absence of God -- Liking What You See: A Documentary -- Story Notes.
Summary: "Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of masterpieces and recently it has taken Hollywood by storm. The lead story in the collection will soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams, while another story has been optioned by Fox and is in development. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change. In the amazing and much-lauded "Story of Your Life," a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her new knowledge of an alien language and its nonlinear structure. In "Liking What You See: A Documentary," a clever pastiche of news reports and interviews chronicle a college's initiative to turn off the human ability to recognize beauty. In "Understand," a young man has an amazing reaction to an experimental drug used to heal brain damage. In each story, with sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by wonder"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Originally published: New York : Tor, c2002" -- Verso title page.

"Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of masterpieces and recently it has taken Hollywood by storm. The lead story in the collection will soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams, while another story has been optioned by Fox and is in development. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change. In the amazing and much-lauded "Story of Your Life," a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her new knowledge of an alien language and its nonlinear structure. In "Liking What You See: A Documentary," a clever pastiche of news reports and interviews chronicle a college's initiative to turn off the human ability to recognize beauty. In "Understand," a young man has an amazing reaction to an experimental drug used to heal brain damage. In each story, with sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by wonder"-- Provided by publisher.

Tower of Babylon -- Understand -- Division by Zero -- Story of Your Life -- Seventy-Two Letters -- The Evolution of Human Science -- Hell is the Absence of God -- Liking What You See: A Documentary -- Story Notes.

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