Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Picador

2016

338 páginas

11h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781509835904

Now filmed as Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.With 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.From 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 fantasia invites us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it. A new film, Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker, is based on one of the stories in this collection.

Resenhas (1)

2.5 (Razoável)

Denis Villeneuve did a wonderful job adapting the main story, which is a good one by the way. But the rest misses the mark for mim. Apart from the main story the only one I actually liked was “understand”, the rest was just a struggle to get through.