Stories of Your Life and Others
07 March 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.’ – The Guardian
With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful debut collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably varied stories.
From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth to the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations...
Details
07 March 2024352 pages
9781035038596Imprint: Picador
Reviews
United by a humane intelligence that speaks very directly to the reader, and makes us experience each story with immediacy and Chiang's calm passion.China Miéville, The Guardian
Ted Chiang's stories are lean, relentless and incandescent.Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad
Ted is a national treasure... each of those stories is a goddamned jewel.Cory Doctorow, journalist and author of Little Brother
Meticulously pieced together, utterly thought through, Chiang's stories emerge slowly . . . but with the perfection of slow-growing crystal.Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Trilogy
