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This new release of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight shared stories. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of dialect and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers listeners the dual delights of the extremely, very bizarre and the heartbreakingly familiar. Stories of Your Life and Others presents personas who must confront sudden change-the inevitable climb of automatons or the looks of aliens-while striving to keep some sense of normalcy. In the amazing and much-lauded title story (the basis for the 2016 movie Arrival), a grieving mother copes with divorce and the loss of life of her little girl by drawing on her behalf understanding of alien languages and non-linear recollection recollection. A ingenious pastiche of reports reports and interviews chronicles a college's effort to "turn off" the real human ability to recognize beauty in "Liking EVERYTHING YOU See: A Documentary." With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by doubt and regular change, and also by beauty and surprise.
