'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. Story of Your Life first appeared in the 1998 anthology Starlight 2, and is now available in Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others collection. The science fiction novella 'Story of Your Life' is the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival. It takes its inspiration from Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life, an acclaimed novella with an inventiveness and poignancy that make it not only a stand-alone work of disarming power, but a. With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose.įrom a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality, Chiang's rigorously imagined fantasias invite us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it. This essay compares the film with the original novella upon which it was based Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life (1998) to examine the role translation plays in both, with the aim of placing.
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