His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan. This looks heart-wrenching, and I've wanted to read it for a while. GENERAL SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY I am a science-fiction writer in economic competition with Mr. Chiang. What a talent. If you're a seller, Fulfilment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Please try again. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2019. These stories are beautifully crafted and, if you are a writer, this book is a fantastic example of just how exemplary writing can be. Ted Chiang. Enough so that I was reluctant to approach the source story -- but I was convinced by a colleague that it was worth it, and that all the stories in the collection are fantastic. I think you really need to be into the “Sci” part of Sci-fi to truly enjoy them; they are thick with scientific terminology and theorems. If I ever write one story as good as the main one in this collection I'll be a very happy author! GENERAL SCIENCE FICTION His writing is deceptively excellent: I would call him a writer's writer, because the flat evenness of his prose may strike a reader as boring unless they have tried to write as c. What's there to say about Chiang that all the others don't say? It’s intense enough inside my head and unique to my experience, so that even talking about this feels like baring an uncomfortably sensitive part of one’s flesh… It’s like crying in public because you can’t stop, and hoping nobody laughs at you for being soppy when you are, in fact, grieving. Great little collection of deeply sophisticated and clever short stories. I'm so glad I have. While my personal favorite is "Hell is the Absence of God," each and every story has something memorable, something original and something brilliant to offer. It was written a few years ago, back when I was an atheist: (WARNING! A non-temporally ordered perception of a life. The contents of this innocuously titled story collection totally blew me away, with its intelligent and science- and fact-based stories, which are as varied as they are unexpectedly and consistently absorbing. I bought this book after watching the "Arrival" film as I was a bit confused about why the aliens really came to earth and it wasn't evident in the film, but the book is even more confusing and laconic. Like many others (I suspect), I bought this book after watching the excellent film "Arrival", and discovering that it was based on a short story by Ted Chiang in this collection. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others tags: aesthetics , beauty-standards , self-esteem , self-esteem-or-lack-thereof , self-image , vanity 6 likes I have read a lot of science fiction but I haven't been so wrapped into a story and the ideas around it than with this collection of shorts. Categories: |