Stories of Your Life and Others: Ted Chiang

With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose.

From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality, Chiang`s rigorously imagined fantasias invite us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it.

The science fiction novella `Story of Your Life` is the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival.