Stories of Your Life and Others

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Stories of Your Life and Others

Alternate Title:	Arrival
Author:	Ted Chiang
Publisher:	Vintage, 2016 Small Beer Press, 2010 Tor, 2002
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Book Type:	Collection
Genre:	Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:	Theological Human Development Hard SF
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Synopsis

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.

The collection received the Locus Award and the stories have received the Hugo, Seiun, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards.

Table of Contents:

"Tower of Babylon" (originally published in Omni) (Nebula Award winner)
"Division by Zero" (originally published in Full Spectrum 3)
"Understand" (originally published in Asimov's)
"Story of Your Life" (originally published in Starlight 2) (Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner)
"The Evolution of Human Science" (a.k.a. "Catching Crumbs from the Table") (originally published in Nature)
"Seventy-Two Letters" (originally published in Vanishing Acts) (Sidewise Award winner)
"Hell Is the Absence of God" (originally published in Starlight 3) (Hugo Award, Locus Award and Nebula Award winner)
"Liking What You See: A Documentary"