Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang's collection of eight science fiction and fantasy stories, including the novella behind the film Arrival, in the 2016 Vintage edition.
Tor first published Ted Chiang’s collection in 2002, gathering his first eight stories, and it won the 2003 Locus Award for Best Collection. Tower of Babylon and Story of Your Life both won the Nebula Award. Karin Tidbeck loves the title story, about a linguist hired to study arriving aliens, because competent experts cooperate and nothing terrible happens when the aliens leave.
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Karin Tidbeck
Stories of Your Life is about a linguist, Louise Banks, who is hired to help study the language of aliens who have just arrived.
Interview · July 2025
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