A short story collection by the multiple-award-winning SF author Ted Chiang.
Ted Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and currently lives outside Seattle, Washington. In 1990 he won the Nebula Award for his first published story, "Tower of Babylon". Following this triumph, his stories have won him numerous other awards, making him one of the most honoured writers in contemporary SF.
Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales . . . this collection is a
pure marvel. [Ted] Chiang is so exhilarating so original so stylish
he just leaves you speechless. I always suggest a person read at
least 52 books a year for proper mental functioning but if you only
have time for one, be at peace: you found it
*Junot Diaz*
United by a humane intelligence that speaks very directly to the
reader, and makes us experience each story with immediacy and
Chiang's calm passion
*China Miéville, Guardian*
Ted is a national treasure...each of those stories is a goddamned
jewel
*Cory Doctorow*
Meticulously pieced together, utterly thought through, Chiang's
stories emerge slowly...but with the perfection of slow-growing
crystal.
*Lev Grossman*
Chiang writes seldom, but his almost unfathomably wonderful stories
tick away with the precision of a Swiss watch--and explode in your
awareness with shocking, devastating force
*Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)*
He puts the science back in science fiction--brilliantly
*Booklist (Starred Review)*
Confirms that blending science and fine art at this length can
produce touching works, tales as intimate as our own blood cells,
with the structural strength of just-discovered industrial
alloys
*Seattle Times*
Chiang derides lazy thinking, weasels it out of its hiding place,
and leaves it cowering
*Washington Post*
Essential. You won't know SF if you don't read Ted Chiang
*Greg Bear*
Science fiction is a genre that often works well off the page.
Spaceships and robots are just as thrilling on screen as in books.
But Mr Chiang's approach is irreplaceable. His stories mirror the
process of scientific discovery: complex ideas emerge from the
measured, methodical accumulation of information until epiphany
strikes. . . . The best science fiction inspires awe for the
natural properties of the universe; it renders the fundamentals of
science poignant and affecting. Mr Chiang's writing manages all of
this. He deserves to be more widely read
*The Economist blog*
Throughout all his work, though no more so than in "Story of Your
Life," you can feel his months of removing sentences from his
stories. Perhaps that he writes so little does something good for
him, or maybe it's just that he doesn't write enough
*Choire Sicha*
The stories range widely in time, subject and style but are united
by a patient but ruthless fascination with the limits of
knowledge
*Ed Park, Los Angeles Times*
Chiang is the real deal. His debut collection, Stories of Your Life
and Others is one of the finest collections of short fiction I have
read in the last decade. These tales possess the imaginative
frisson that is a trademark of the best conceptual fiction, but,
also bespeak a confident prose style and a willingness to take
chances in tone and narrative structure
*Ted Gioia*
It will not take readers new to these stories very long to
appreciate their quality and beauty
*https://www.sfsite.com*
I think Chiang is one of the great science fiction short story
writers of all time . . . I get absorbed in things, I say "Hey,
that's nifty," but it's not often these days that I have that
"What? What? Wow!" experience. Chiang does it for me practically
every time. There's no wonder he keeps winning awards-he really is
just that good. I generally try not to simply burble incoherently
that things are brilliant and you have to read them, but faced with
stories this awesome, that's pretty much all I can do
*Jo Walton, Tor.com*
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