Stories of Your Life and Others (Paperback)

from sperzdechly

I hate the phrase "instant classic" but if I was to write a two-word review of this book I could not find a better one. This collection of short stories is reminiscent of works of such writers as Asimov, Lem, or Sturgeon, yet completely original and unique. While the level is not even and some s...

from antao

Are you familiar with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? Back in the day when I was in college I remember writing a paper on applying this language paradigm to coding. It was so long ago I don't really remember what I wrote, but I still remember agreeing with the fact that coding could also be a fitting...

from martialalex92

All of the short stories are at a minimum good but stories of your life is phenomenal.

from dmtrader

The best way I can sum it up; Ted Chiang writes sci fi populated with characters I can relate to. My favorites were the two stories with Biblical backdrops. Understand is sort of a Flowers for Algernon gone wild. There's also a story about a Golem. It's very imaginative. But I still can see and f...

from stacyinthecity

This was a collection of short stories that was like nothing I'd ever read before. I'm still processing them, as I'm sure I will for time to come. What if the tower of Babel was real, and humans did reach all the way to heaven? What would they find when they broke through into heaven? The answer ...