I like to see Ted Chiang's writing ("Story of Your Life", "The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate" and "What's Expected Of Us") as "free will as a perspective",

I like to see Ted Chiang's writing ("Story of Your Life", "The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate" and "What's Expected Of Us") as "free will as a perspective", rather than anything objectively existing (or not existing). And secondarily - "free will vs knowing future as a trade-off", not unlike Lagrangian vs Netwonian mechanics, or as rotating space and time in Special Relativity.