Stories of Your Life and Others
Chiang, Ted
- 出版商: Vintage
- 出版日期: 2016-06-14
- 售價: $900
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $855
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 304
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 1101972122
- ISBN-13: 9781101972120
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商品描述
An award-winning book from the author of Exhalation, this short story collection "blend s] absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space. . . . raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human." --The New York Times Includes "Story of Your Life" the basis for the major motion picture Arrival 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 automatons or the appearance of aliens--with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic.
作者簡介
Ted Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and holds a degree in computer science. In 1989 he attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Workshop. His fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards, and he is the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Stories of Your Life and Others has been translated into ten languages. He lives near Seattle, Washington.
