“Understanding” (1991) follows an ordinary man who has receives an experimental new drug to revive him from a vegetative state. The first story, “Tower of Babylon” (originally published in 1990), takes place in ancient Babylon and deals with the centuries-long building of a tower to reach the Seat of God within Heaven’s Vault. "He puts the science back in science fiction-brilliantly.The edition of Stories of Your Life and Others used for this guide is an e-book by Vintage, published as a movie tie-in under the title Arrival in 2016. "The first must-read SF book of the year." - Publishers Weekly (starred Review) "Chiang writes seldom, but his almost unfathomably wonderful stories tick away with the precision of a Swiss watch-and explode in your awareness with shocking, devastating force." - Kirkus Reviews (starred Review) You won't know SF if you don't read Ted Chiang." -Greg Bear
"Chiang derides lazy thinking, weasels it out of its hiding place, and leaves it cowering." - Washington Post "Confirms that blending science and fine art at this length can produce touching works, tales as intimate as our own blood cells, with the structural strength of just-discovered industrial alloys." - Seattle Times each of those stories is a goddamned jewel." -Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing "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 Mieville, The Guardian You must read him." -Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble Now." -Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves If you don't know his name, let's fix that.
"Ted Chiang is one of the best and smartest writers working today. but with the perfection of slow-growing crystal." -Lev Grossman, Best of the Decade: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Techland "Meticulously pieced together, utterly thought through, Chiang's stories emerge slowly. Every sentence is the perfect incision in the dissection of the idea at hand." - The Guardian "Shines with a brutal, minimalist elegance. raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human." - The New York Times "Blend absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space.
"Chiang writes with a gruff and ready heart that brings to mind George Saunders and Steven Millhauser, but he's uncompromisingly cerebral." - The New Yorker
"A swell movie adaptation always sends me to the source material, so Arrival had me pick up Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others lean, relentless, and incandescent." -Colson Whitehead, GQ
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