Stories of Your Life and Others

★★★★☆
Written By Muhan Zhang
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By Ted Chiang

Publication Year: 2002

Type: Fiction

Genre: sci-fi, short stories, speculative fiction

Read on 2019-05-07

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★★★★☆

(Goodreads). What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Stories of your life . . . and others.

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