Book · 2002 · Fiction

Stories of Your Life and Others

Name: Stories of Your Life and Others
Author: Ted Chiang

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 285 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Chiang treats theology, linguistics and free will with the rigor of proofs. A linguist learns an alien script written all at once, and it changes how she experiences her whole life.

Genre

Science fiction Philosophical fiction Speculative fiction

Medium

Short stories

Subject

Language Time Artificial intelligence Consciousness

Time

2002

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