Description: Stories of Your Life and Others, Paperback by Chiang, Ted, ISBN 1101972122, ISBN-13 9781101972120, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "Soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers readers the dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar. Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change--the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens--while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy. In the amazing and much-lauded title story, a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her knowledge of alien languages and non-linear memory recollection. A clever pastiche of news reports and interviews chronicles a college's initiative to "turn off" the human ability to recognize beauty in "Liking What You See: A Documentary." With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty and constant change, and also by beauty and wonder"--
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Book Title: Stories of Your Life and Others
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Science Fiction / Alien Contact, Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Asian American
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.8 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Ted Chiang
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
