Stories of Your Life and Others
Description
From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that
blends “absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time
and space … raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to
be human” (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual
delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often
presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of
automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp
intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world
marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning
collection from one of today’s most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and
Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for
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Features:
Product Details:
- Publisher : Vintage; Reissue edition (June 14, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1101972122
- ISBN-13 : 20
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.15 x 0.88 x 7.97 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books) #27 in Short Stories Anthologies #81 in Short Stories (Books)
- #4 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
- #27 in Short Stories Anthologies