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4.3/5 Barnes & Noble Publication date July 2002 Originally published July 2002 | 4.3/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (hardcover) Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Stories of Your Life and Others Pages 333 pp (first edition, hardback) ISBN 0-7653-0418-X (first edition, hardback) Genres Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Ted Chiang books, Locus Award for Best Collection winners, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
stories of your life and others review
Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by Ted Chiang originally published in 2002 by Tor Books. It collects Chiang's first eight stories. All of the stories except "Liking What You See: A Documentary" were previously published individually elsewhere.
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This was reprinted in 2016, as a movie tie-in edition for the adaptation of "Story of Your Life" as the film Arrival and also called "Arrival".
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Reception
Reviewing the book at the SF Site, Greg L. Johnson said that this collection shows why Chiang's stories continue to win awards. Johnson wrote that "it will not take readers new to these stories very long to appreciate their quality and beauty". He added that science fiction relies on short fiction writers to "examine new ideas and push the boundaries of the field", and Chiang has demonstrated he is "more than up to that task".
English fantasy author China Miéville wrote in a review in The Guardian that Chiang's stories in this collection "unfold with a logic that is ineluctable and compassionate". Here "humanism is inextricable from rationalism", and "it is the rationalism of the characters – and the writer – that makes them emotional and human". Miéville said that despite the extensive use of mathematics, physics and language in the stories, they are infused with a "profound humanism" that makes "the most abstruse philosophical conjectures ... resonant and emotional".