Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
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“@Mikel_Jollett Collection of short stories by Ted Chiang "Stories of your Life and others." The movie "Arrival" was based on the title short story. Love this collection! | I haven't read the bottom book, but the top three are all INCREDIBLE. | When I first read this book, I was on an airplane, and I had a strange sensation: How could my brain and my heart be unfolding into a thousand different dimensions while my body is trapped in Seat 14C Reading Chiang's scifi feels like witnessing a miracle of applied grace.”
Source →“@Mikel_Jollett Collection of short stories by Ted Chiang "Stories of your Life and others." The movie "Arrival" was based on the title short story. Love this collection! | I haven't read the bottom book, but the top three are all INCREDIBLE. | When I first read this book, I was on an airplane, and I had a strange sensation: How could my brain and my heart be unfolding into a thousand different dimensions while my body is trapped in Seat 14C Reading Chiang's scifi feels like witnessing a miracle of applied grace.”
Source →“@Mikel_Jollett Collection of short stories by Ted Chiang "Stories of your Life and others." The movie "Arrival" was based on the title short story. Love this collection! | I haven't read the bottom book, but the top three are all INCREDIBLE. | When I first read this book, I was on an airplane, and I had a strange sensation: How could my brain and my heart be unfolding into a thousand different dimensions while my body is trapped in Seat 14C Reading Chiang's scifi feels like witnessing a miracle of applied grace.”
Source →“@Mikel_Jollett Collection of short stories by Ted Chiang "Stories of your Life and others." The movie "Arrival" was based on the title short story. Love this collection! | I haven't read the bottom book, but the top three are all INCREDIBLE. | When I first read this book, I was on an airplane, and I had a strange sensation: How could my brain and my heart be unfolding into a thousand different dimensions while my body is trapped in Seat 14C Reading Chiang's scifi feels like witnessing a miracle of applied grace.”
Source →“@Mikel_Jollett Collection of short stories by Ted Chiang "Stories of your Life and others." The movie "Arrival" was based on the title short story. Love this collection! | I haven't read the bottom book, but the top three are all INCREDIBLE. | When I first read this book, I was on an airplane, and I had a strange sensation: How could my brain and my heart be unfolding into a thousand different dimensions while my body is trapped in Seat 14C Reading Chiang's scifi feels like witnessing a miracle of applied grace.”
Source →“@Mikel_Jollett Collection of short stories by Ted Chiang "Stories of your Life and others." The movie "Arrival" was based on the title short story. Love this collection! | I haven't read the bottom book, but the top three are all INCREDIBLE. | When I first read this book, I was on an airplane, and I had a strange sensation: How could my brain and my heart be unfolding into a thousand different dimensions while my body is trapped in Seat 14C Reading Chiang's scifi feels like witnessing a miracle of applied grace.”
Source →Recommended by 8 notable people, including Naval Ravikant and Tim Ferriss
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Short Stories, Science Fiction, and Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant.
Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the m...
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Short Stories, Science Fiction, and Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant.
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“@Mikel_Jollett Collection of short stories by Ted Chiang "Stories of your Life and others." The movie "Arrival" was based on the title short story. Love this collection! | I haven't read the bottom book, but the top three are all INCREDIBLE. | When I first read this book, I was on an airplane, and I had a strange sensation: How could my brain and my heart be unfolding into a thousand different dimensions while my body is trapped in Seat 14C Reading Chiang's scifi feels like witnessing a miracle of applied grace.”
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