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Stories of your life and others / Ted Chiang.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.H53 A6 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chiang, Ted, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adaptability (Psychology).
- Automation.
- Change (Psychology).
- Life change events--Fiction.
- Life change events.
- Change (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Automation--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Adaptability (Psychology)--Fiction.
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General.
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author).
- Local Subjects:
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General.
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author).
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Science fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
- Summary:
- Stories of your life and others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change -- the inevitable rise of automations or the appearance of aliens -- while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy.
- Contents:
- Tower of Babylon
- Understand
- Division by zero
- Story of your life
- Seventy-two letters
- The evolution of human science
- Hell is the absence of God
- Liking what you see: A documentary
- Story notes.
- Notes:
- Nebula Award for Best Novella, 1999
- "Originally published: New York : Tor, ©2002"--Title page verso.
- The story in this collection Story of Your Life was adapted into the 2016 motion picture Arrival.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- Stories of your life.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Chiang, Ted, author. Stories of your life and others.
- ISBN:
- 9781101972120
- 1101972122
- OCLC:
- 928119950
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