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Author Chiang, Ted, author.

Title Stories of your life and others / Ted Chiang.

Edition First Vintage Books edition.
Publication Info. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1772554~S1
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 95th Street Adult Fiction  F CHIANG    DUE 05-16-24
 95th Street Adult Fiction  F CHIANG    DUE 04-30-24
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F CHIANG    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F CHIANG    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F CHIANG    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F CHIANG    DUE 05-18-24
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Description 281 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "Soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers readers the dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar. Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change--the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens--while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy. In the amazing and much-lauded title story, a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her knowledge of alien languages and non-linear memory recollection. A clever pastiche of news reports and interviews chronicles a college's initiative to "turn off" the human ability to recognize beauty in "Liking What You See: A Documentary." With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty and constant change, and also by beauty and wonder"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Subject Science fiction, American -- Fiction.
Added Title Stories of your life.
ISBN 9781101972120 (paperback)
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