The story of your life and other stories - 9789669939845
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The publication of each new work by Ted Chiang becomes a landmark event in contemporary science fiction. And the release of his collection marks a milestone for the development of the genre as a whole. You are holding the first of them — "The Story of Your Life and Other Stories" — which has won multiple major science fiction awards, earning four Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards each. And the story that became the title of the collection was adapted into a film by Denis Villeneuve: the movie "Arrival" was also awarded an Oscar. The depth of concept, the level of idea development, and the conciseness and meticulousness in the selection of lexical devices allow Ted Chiang to cause tectonic shifts in understanding how the world around us is arranged and works, and to provoke readers to look at life from a new angle. What would happen if ancient people managed to build a tower all the way to Heaven — and break through to the other side? What would change if we understood the contradictions and fallacies of mathematical foundations? What would occur if people learned to animate inanimate matter with words? How would we change if first contact and mastering an alien language forever altered our perception of time? And what would happen if all the dogmas of the Christian faith turned out to be absolutely true, and the contemplation of hell became an everyday event on city streets?
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