Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others

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Beschreibung

Here are eight astonishing science-fiction stories that explore the boundaries between science and religion, between determinism and our ability to choose, between words and the entities they describe. Here are stories of conceptual breakthrough...of making sense of the universe and our place in it. 'What a pleasure it is to read Chiang...Can he be the best SF writer to come down the pike in the past thirty years? I honestly believe that he is' Harry Harrison 'Superb and thought-provoking. I could run out of superlatives trying to describe Chiang's work. Stories of Your Life is the best collection of short stories, novellas and novelettes I have ever read...Ted Chiang will blow you away with this astonishing collection' The Alien Online

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Beiträge

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5

Every story in itself is fantastic, not always captivating you with the style it is written in or the setting in which it blossoms to expose its core idea but for the idea itself and how it will turn and twist. I started with Exhalation and that bar was set - high. This book, despite being a little weaker on the story telling part and the personal interest and style of stories that it presents, is still an absolute masterpiece of a collection of short stories with interesting views on the world and concepts that spark your brain to think after you've finished each one of them. Not as much as Exhalation though, I pondered my life because of that book.

4

I liked almost all the stories equally. Interesting themes were discussed, and I will revisit some of them in the future. My top 3 were: Story of your life Tower of Babylon Hell is the absence of God

3

I was initially intrigued to read this collection because of the short story „Story of your Life“ which is the basis for the movie Arrival. Since I loved the movie I wanted to see how it would work as a short story. It’s amazing how different they are but I loved them both!! I also really liked „Understand“ and „Liking What You See : A Documentary“. I had to DNF two of the stories because I didn’t like the subjects. For a detailed rating see the list below. Tower of Babylon 4/5 ⭐️ Understand 4/5 ⭐️ Division by Zero 3/5 ⭐️ Story of Your Life 5/5 ⭐️ Seventy-Two Letters DNF The Evolution of Human Science 2/5 ⭐️ Hell Is the Absence of God DNF Liking What You See : A Documentary 4/5 ⭐️

0

Ted Chiang's short stories are real gems. Some are cut with great precision, some are overcut, and others are perfect in their simple brilliance. My personal favorite of this collection: "Hell is the absence of God".

3.5

Die erste Hälfte gefiel mir hervorragend. Toll ist vor allem, wie abwechslungsreich die Stories sind. Sehr empfehlenswert, wenn man ein Faible für existenzphilosophische Problemfelder hat. Allerdings empfand ich daraufhin die Kurzgeschichte Seventy Two Letters als abgedroschene Analogie zu SF-Themen wie Robotics, Klonen etc. schwer durchzuhaltende Kost: schablonenhafte Charaktere, bar jeder Spannung, schmucklos geschrieben und viiiiiel zu lang. Hell is the Absence of God behandelt eine fantastische philosophische Fragestellung, aber die Handlung war mir viel zu überladen, unglaubwürdig und Fantasy-mäßig. Die eigentliche Punkt bleibt leider deshalb bis zu den letzten Seiten begraben. Gerade diese zwei missglückten Stories sind zudem recht ausufernd und trüben leider den eigentlich positiven Gesamteindruck. Chiang ufert zwar auch in den ersten Stories für meinen Geschmack schon ein bisschen zu sehr aus, aber wenn einem eine Story dann mal überhaupt nicht gefällt, fällt diese Länge offensichtlich stärker ins Gewicht. Die Balance, welche Storyidee wie lange gehen sollte, ist hier auf jeden Fall für mich nicht gut getroffen. Mein Highlight: Story of Your Life, die Titelstory, die als "Arrival" verfilmt worden ist.

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