Next up we have “Understand”, which is about a super-nerd battling another super-nerd. This is a bonkers combo of claustrophobia and acrophobia, a mix guaranteed to raise a few hairs and drain a few pores. But another thing about this story, surprisingly, is how much it succeeded in terrifying me. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn Chiang built his own Tower of Babylon just to research the story, that’s how authentic the mechanics of this tower feel. And you bet your sweet ass Chiang does, too, only of course he knows about it more than anybody out there. I’m not remotely religious, and I know about Babylon. Stories of Your Life and Others begins with “Tower of Babylon”, a story with a fairy-tale feel about the infamous biblical tower. He’s the King on the Hill, screaming alien math equations into the stars.
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The amount of research and concentration each one must have taken surely would have caused multiple head explosions in lesser writers. I can’t even imagine how long it must take to write a Ted Chiang story. He’s only published 15 stories since he started in the ‘90s, and I’m not surprised. The concepts he’s developed in this book are insane. The man is too goddamn smart for his own good. But I’ve heard enough praise about Ted Chiang to know I’d be a fool to ignore his book.
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I’m more of a crime and horror kinda guy, if we’re being honest here. I’m not going to claim to have read a lot of science fiction. Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent. If you gave me an equation and told me it needed to be solved by next year otherwise the world would explode, well, you'd need to start telling your loved ones what they really mean to you, because ka-blam. I don’t think it’s a good idea for anybody to put me in a position to manage numbers. I had a hard enough time passing math in high school. When I try to picture smart, successful scientist people, all that comes to mind is Mark Ruffalo and Tilda Swinton passionately making out.
#The story of your life and others movie
Said lead(s) would be portrayed in a movie by: But those other people? The ones who care about the future, who are bursting of curiosity? That’s who occupies the pages of this book.
#The story of your life and others tv
Some people, they wake up, go to work, distract their minds for eight hours, then come home and watch TV and try to forget the same thing awaits them the next day, and the day after that. Read this if you want to give yourself a headache trying to understand concepts entirely too complicated for your small mind. Read this if you want to learn something about the world.
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Science fiction that focuses more on science than most titles thrown under the sci-fi rug. Or, how I described it to the waitress who asked what I was reading the other day at IHOP: “Oh, you know, just a bunch of fuckin' nerds doing nerd-stuff. Ted Chiang, author of only 15 short works of fiction, but regarded as perhaps one of the best science fiction writers of all time, and for good reason.Ĭool people kicking the world’s ass with the power of science.