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  • Page Length: 279 pages
  • Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve.
  • Ted Chiang has long been known as one of the most powerful science fiction writers working today. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Arrival presents characters who must confront sudden change. In "Story of Your Life," which provides the basis for the film Arrival, alien lifeforms suddenly appear on Earth. When a linguist is brought in to help communicate with them and discern their intentions, her new knowledge of their language and its nonlinear structure allows her to see future events and all the joy and pain they may bring. In each story of this incredible collection, with sharp intelligence and humor, Ted Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by wonder.

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AuthorTed Chiang
PublisherVintage
Publication dateNovember 1, 2016
Print length279 pages
Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve.

"A swell movie adaptation always sends me to the source material, so Arrival had me pick up Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others: lean, relentless, and incandescent." —Colson Whitehead, GQ

Ted Chiang has long been known as one of the most powerful science fiction writers working today. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Arrival presents characters who must confront sudden change. In "Story of Your Life," which provides the basis for the film Arrival, alien lifeforms suddenly appear on Earth. When a linguist is brought in to help communicate with them and discern their intentions, her new knowledge of their language and its nonlinear structure allows her to see future events and all the joy and pain they may bring. In each story of this incredible collection, with sharp intelligence and humor, Ted Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by wonder.

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Not a book reader but the movie is just 🤯esp the more to watch it and catch the subtilties. It really makes you think.

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03-29-2025 at 09:06 PM.
Not a book reader but the movie is just 🤯esp the more to watch it and catch the subtilties. It really makes you think.
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JoshulaSays
03-30-2025 at 01:58 PM.
03-30-2025 at 01:58 PM.
Listened to the audio book for exhalation by him and loved the stories. Thanks op
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03-30-2025 at 05:34 PM.
03-30-2025 at 05:34 PM.
The short story this amazing movie is based off of is very boring and talks more about linguistics than promote the story

It's also very different from the movie

I'd skip it, despite the movie being one of my favorites
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ChrisL1958
03-30-2025 at 05:46 PM.
03-30-2025 at 05:46 PM.
Two days ago, I pulled up to the "Smartless" podcast (for first time in 3-4 months), scrolled thru their list of guests and saw one with Denis Villeneuve (director of the movie) and from a random question, he mentioned that he read this book as a youth, found it beautiful and made the movie. I loved the movie, love his movies and thought "I can read a short story". I spent today looking for the it, found it was part of a larger book and decided I'll see if it's at my local library.

And it pops up here for $2. It just further confirms my suspicion that we are living in a simulated world!

Thanks OP!
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03-30-2025 at 07:10 PM.
03-30-2025 at 07:10 PM.
Quote from ChrisL1958 :
Two days ago, I pulled up to the "Smartless" podcast (for first time in 3-4 months), scrolled thru their list of guests and saw one with Denis Villeneuve (director of the movie) and from a random question, he mentioned that he read this book as a youth, found it beautiful and made the movie. I loved the movie, love his movies and thought "I can read a short story". I spent today looking for the it, found it was part of a larger book and decided I'll see if it's at my local library.And it pops up here for $2. It just further confirms my suspicion that we are living in a simulated world!Thanks OP!
similar situations happens to me not infrequently, I tried to share the idea with others. It's better to think it's all chance bias or this all part of the matrix ?
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03-30-2025 at 09:26 PM.
03-30-2025 at 09:26 PM.
Great, now we're going to have people who will never read the story (not a novel, a short story) voice their opinion just because they've seen the movie.
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TrancendentalO
03-30-2025 at 09:56 PM.
03-30-2025 at 09:56 PM.
Contrary to some other opinions, I found the short story very good. Both it and the movie try to hit the out-of-linear-time mindset in different ways. I think it's best to have both as the concepts are super interesting, and take some time of sitting with them.
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TenderMustang125
03-30-2025 at 10:47 PM.
03-30-2025 at 10:47 PM.
Divide by 0, Hell is the absence of God and Understand were my fav short stories. Honestly just look at how many awards this book received.
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03-31-2025 at 03:46 AM.
03-31-2025 at 03:46 AM.
Is this the Prometheus sequel
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03-31-2025 at 05:54 AM.
03-31-2025 at 05:54 AM.
This story is great, and it's not even the best one in this collection. I read it recently, and really there aren't any bad ones. I really enjoyed the whole collection.
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03-31-2025 at 05:54 AM.
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Is this the Prometheus sequel

No, that would be Covenant.
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03-31-2025 at 03:08 PM.
03-31-2025 at 03:08 PM.
Quote from funnyman :
similar situations happens to me not infrequently, I tried to share the idea with others. It's better to think it's all chance bias or this all part of the matrix ?
Part coincidence, part targeting cookies and apps with access to the microphone on your device.
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