Stories of Your Life and Others -- Ted Chiang

Description: From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends 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 Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change--the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens--with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Book and Mortar Record Store Stories of Your Life and Others -- Ted Chiang From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends 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 Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change--the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens--with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes "Story of Your Life"--the basis for the major motion picture Arrival Author: Ted Chiang Publisher: Vintage Published: 06/14/2016 Pages: 304 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.65lbs Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d ISBN: 9781101972120 Accelerated Reader: Reading Level: 8.2 Point Value: 16 Interest Level: Upper Grade Quiz #/Name: 68040 / Stories of Your Life and Others About the Author Ted Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and holds a degree in computer science. In 1989 he attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Workshop. His fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards, and he is the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Stories of Your Life and Others has been translated into ten languages. He lives near Seattle, Washington.

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