Stories of your life and others /
Ted Chiang.
- First Vintage Books edition.
- 281 pages 21 cm
"Originally published: New York : Tor, c2002" -- Verso title page.
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.
"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"--