★★★★★
Ted Chiang publishes only occasionally stories, and I would say that everyone is enjoyable and should be read. His novella “Story of Your Life” has recently been picturized in the film “Arrival”. The stories are scattered broadly over the subgenres of speculative fiction, most of them concept driven. If you don’t need action or character development to enjoy a story, this will be a very good collection for you.
In addition, you might like this interview with Ted Chiang about the collection.
Contents:
- ★★★★ • Tower of Babylon • 1990 • alternate universe novelette considering celestial spheres • review
- ★★★ • Understand • 1991 • posthumanity novelette by Ted Chiang • retake of “Flowers for Algernon” • review
- ★★★ • Division by Zero • 1991 • mathematics shortstory by Ted Chiang • review
- ★★★★★ • Story of Your Life • 1998 • First contact novella by Ted Chiang • first contact, linguistics • review
- ★★★★★ • Seventy-Two Letters • 2000 • Steampunk novella by Ted Chiang • review
- 241 ★★★ • The Evolution of Human Science • 2000 • Post humanism shortstory by Ted Chiang • review
- ★★1/2 • Hell Is the Absence of God • 2001 • novelette by Ted Chiang • satire on Theodicy • review
- ★★★★+ • Liking What You See: A Documentary • 2001 • Near SF novelette by Ted Chiang • shutting off the ability to recognize beautiful or ugly faces • review
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