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Tower of Babylon was superb, I read it with the other short stories (can't remember the name of the collection) a month or so ago. Wasn't so sure about the res
by djhworld 10y ago
Tower of Babylon was superb, I read it with the other short stories (can't remember the name of the collection) a month or so ago.
Wasn't so sure about the rest of them though, I felt the Babylon story kind of eclipsed all of them.
- ltnately 10y agoStories of Your Life and Others.
- himlion 10y agoI agree, it was the first story in the book and after that masterpiece it was hard for the other ones to live up to it.
- exhilaration 10y agoI got the audiobook from Audible [1] after reading about it on HN and that's the only story I asked my wife to listen to - she loved it and she's not a science fiction fan. [1] http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Stories-of-Your-Life-and-Others-Audiobook/B00I5S2PI4 http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Stories-of-Your-Lif...
- iwintermute 10y agoInteresting - i've tried to find Ted's books on Audible several times with no results. And it happens to be regional restriction. "We're sorry. Due to publishing rights restrictions, we are not authorized to sell this item in the country where you live." Sigh.
- voidifremoved 10y agoAgreed, that is the standout. I enjoyed the one about not being able to see beauty, but I felt it didn't go anywhere. Stories Of Your Life takes the central idea of Slaughterhouse-Five and dresses it up with physics. Its good, but its like a remix more than anything.
- sooheon 10y agoInteresting way to see it. If anything, Chiang took all the humor out of Vonnegut's story, which made the ludicrous bearable by making us laugh as well as cry.