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“Stories of Your Life is about a linguist, Louise Banks, who is hired to help study the language of aliens who have just arrived. And that’s basically it. That’s why I love the story so much. She studies the aliens and tries to communicate with them; she succeeds, and in the process, she is fundamentally changed – because understanding these other people’s language changes the way her mind functions, and changes her life entirely. It changes the way she approaches the past, the present, the future, free will and choices – and how she chooses to live her life, despite maybe knowing more about how it works.” Read more...
“Ted Chiang is a short story and novella writer who’s not very prolific. He’s published famously few stories. But a large proportion of his stories have a huge impact and win prizes. His stories are so richly philosophical. Though he was certainly well known in the science fiction short story community, his public fame came with Arrival, a blockbuster movie that was based on one of the stories in this collection.” Read more...
Science Fiction and Philosophy
Eric Schwitzgebel, Philosopher
