Reddit reviews Stories of Your Life and Others

I think Chiang is one of those people who writes fiction about science - whether it's SF, fantasy, or mainstream. The hard/soft SF distinction is kind of irrelevant when talking about him. It's sort of like asking whether Richard Powers or Alan Lightman is a hard SF writer.

Let me post the links you need to be a Chiang completist:

(All of the online fiction is legal. Most of them are pdfs made available by the publishers as a condition of being nominated for certain awards.)

• His only published collection, which contains most of his fiction (amazon link)
  
  
• A reprint of his one Nature short that's not in the collection (opens pdf)
  
  
• His Nebula-winning story, Exhalation, also uncollected (opens pdf) (this is probably my favorite Chiang story)
  
  
• Kindle edition of his fantasy time-travel story, The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate (unfortunately, the chapbooks of the story are collector's items and cost more than $100; but you can always buy the issue of F&SF that published it.)
  
  
• His novella (not novel) The Lifecycle of Software Objects published online at Subterranean Magazine
  
  FWIW, I think Lifecycle is the weakest thing he's published so far, so if it disappoints you, don't transfer that feeling to the rest of his fiction.

Ted Chiang's short stories are worth a read, especially if you're looking for something with a more professional written tone.

Pretty much anything by Ted Chiang, especially "Story of your Life" and "Hell is the Absence of God". His anthology Stories of Your Life and Others is incredible.

Stories of your Life, and others by Ted Chiang.


Was wandering aimlessly in the University Bookstore a few years ago with some store credit needing to be spent. For no real reason, this book spoke to me. Pulled it off the shelf and and shrugged. Oksure, I'll bite. Bought it and instantly loved it. Some very solid sci-fi stories.

Arthur C. Clarke - The Collected Short Stories.

Nothing else can compare to how those things made me feel when I was growing up.

Beyond that, Ted Chiang's "Stories of Your Life: And Others" is an absolute masterpiece. Absolutely astonished the man's not better known- he's that rarity- a sci-fi author that writes beautifully.

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Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
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It's called Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. It's in his short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others, which you can buy on Amazon. It's worth it just for this story, but all of them are excellent. Ted Chiang is often cited as the best living SciFi author to never have written a novel.

https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/1931520720

Have you considered short stories?

If you're into SF, it's a major side of the genre. There's eleventy billion collections of them out there, but Stories Of Your Life And Others is awesome, and small enough to get through over a short period.

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang.

The short story "Understand" (part of that collection) may be my favorite of all time.

not academic material, but, if you are into sci-fi, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/1931520720

author has a compsci background from Brown, and I find that his stories encompass elements that would appeal to any compsci-minding individual

This is like the third time I've recommended this book but it's perfect for what you're looking for. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang has a couple of stories that fit your criteria and they're excellent. The titular story and also "Liking What You See: A Documentary" are both set in present or near-future worlds. Here's a link for the latter so you can determine if you like his writing.

I'd like to recommend Ted Chiang's short story Hell Is the Absence of God which is contained in his short story collection Story of your Life and Others (Goodreads - Amazon)

It is set in a world where the Abrahamic god of the Old Testament actually exists and behaves just as described, like a crazed maniac. There are Angel visitations and the existence of hell and heaven is proven.

I really like the fact that there is a group of humanists who rebel against such a god,and willingly go to hell in order to live an honest life where everyone else just obeys in order to get into heaven when they die.

Stories of Your Life and Others. My favorite.

Sim, eu leio tudo em inglês. Eu não conhecia esse The Three Body Problem, to vendo agora e parece bem legal, eu estava justamente precisando de um novo livro pra ler esse feriado, valeu pela dica!

Outros livros que eu ja lí e recomendo:

• The Story of Your Life and Others: Um livro de contos do autor Ted Chiang. O conto mais conhecido do livro inspirou o filme Arrival que saiu ano passado (como de usual, o livro é ainda melhor). Os contos são hard sci-fi, cada um com inspiração em uma área da ciência. Matemática, física, computação, linguistica, biologia, etc.
  
  
• Learning The World: Uma história de sci-fi, primeiro contato em que os humanos são tratados como os alienígenas novamente. A história se divide entre o que acontece dentro da nave levando os humanos, principalmente na perspectiva de uma garota que fica escrevendo no seu blog os acontecimentos, e um cientista professor astronomo do planeta 'alien'. Os humanos estão colonizando sistemas solares vizinhos e construindo Dyson Spheres, mas nunca encontraram vida inteligênte e estão convencidos que estão sós no universo. Os 'aliens' são criaturas parecidas com morcego e vivem em uma sociedade parecida com a pós revolução industrial. O autronomo observa um ao longo dos anos um 'asteróide' com movimento irregular se aproximando do planeta e o povo fica doido. Os humanos descobrem que tem vida inteligente no planeta e ficam doido.
  
  
• Spice and Wolf: Uma série de livros que contam a história de um mercante viajante em um mundo que lembra a europa medieval. Em uma das cidades ele encontra por acaso uma garota que se diz a deusa da colheita. A história se desenvolve ao longo dos livros com os dois fazendo uma longa viagem até a terra natal da garota, se envolvendo em diversos acontecimentos, oportunidades de lucros, e perdas no caminho e ganhando mais conheicmento. Eu absolutamente amo a dinâmica entre os dois, como eles desenvolvem amor pelo outro mas de forma bem sutil, e como eles nunca chegam ao seu destino, encontrando toda oportunidade para se desviar, porque no fundo não querem se separar um do outro. É uma história que junta mistério, romance, e vários conceitos de economia. Fizeram um anime da história também, mas só cobre até o livro 6 se não me engano.

I've recently read two books that I absolutely fell in love with:

1.) Stories of Your Life and Others: http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/1931520720/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413578672&sr=8-1&keywords=stories+of+your+life+and+others

2.) Neuromancer (A classic that I've just gotten into): http://www.amazon.com/Neuromancer-William-Gibson/dp/0441569595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413578739&sr=8-1&keywords=neuromancer

I literally didn't have to leave my chair to pull it off my shelf to double check the title ( :) ) but you can find this, and several other excellent Ted Chiang short stories in the collection Stories of Your Life and Others. I was going to go through and recommend some specific stories from the collection... but it turns out I loved all of them.

If you're not familiar, I think you would probably enjoy the stories of Ted Chiang.

The first in what I hope will be a series of stellar Ted Chiang adaptations!

ANYONE who is into beautiful, idea-centric sci-fi will benefit from the book this is based on! http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/1931520720