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A collection of short stories and novellas that make you think about life in ways I never expected. Really diverse premises and conclusions. It includes the "Stories of Your Life" upon which Arrival is based and the movie is very true to the themes and perspectives of the story you can read here. In all very clever and an easy and compelling read all the way through.
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This book is somewhat disappointing. The stories are not written with the same level of creativity, surprise, and depth as the more recent compilation of stories in Exhalation. While interesting to see where the author began his writings, they do not compare favorably with his more recent contributions.
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Ted Chaing is one of the crop of relatively newer writers whose style is tinged with Ray Bradbury's palette of colors in which bizarre phenomena is prosaic. Stories of Your Life is full of these types of stories. "Hell is the Absence of God" is one of these stories in which angels routinely visit the earth. Their arrival ripples through the environment with destructive force. The story contemplates God's destructive nature and the main character's struggle with reason, rather than faith, as reason and logic are meaningless in this particular world.
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Ted Chiang is an awesome writer. Even Samuel Delany says so! And "The Story of your Life," besides being a wonderful story, made a very impressive movie, called "Arrival."
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Just get and read this book! Every story is amazing and memorable. Ted Chiang is a treasure! I recommend this for EVERYONE.
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