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Stories of Your Life and Others
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Last discussed Oct 18, 2026
Short story collection by Ted Chiang, including the story that inspired the film Arrival.
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Emmanuel Ameisen · Oct 18, 2026
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Praised: High-art sci-fi; each story explores a single weird idea and its consequences...
vs: Called maybe his favorite sci-fi book of all time
"Another one is Stories of Your Life and Others. This is Ted Chiang. This is maybe my favorite sci-fi book of all time. It's a bunch of short stories. It does what I think is the high-art version of sci-fi, where it's just take one weird idea, like..."
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