Stories Of Your Life And Others

Author: Ted Chiang

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  • : $34.00 AUD
  • : 9781101972120
  • : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • : Vintage
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  • : 0.272
  • : May 2016
  • : 201mm X 130mm X 23mm
  • : United States
  • : 30.95
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  • : Ted Chiang
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  • : Paperback / softback
  • : 1606
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  • : English
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Barcode 9781101972120
9781101972120

Description

Includes Story of Your Life the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales . . . Ted Chiang is so exhilarating, so original, so stylish he just leaves you speechless. Junot Diaz Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic."

Author description

Ted Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and holds a degree in computer science. In 1989 he attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer s Workshop. His fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards, and he is the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Stories of Your Life and Others has been translated into ten languages. He lives near Seattle, Washington."