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The author, Ted Chiang, recently released his book of short stories, Exhalation. This story is included in the book. It's good, but not as good as his first bo
by jatsign 7y ago
The author, Ted Chiang, recently released his book of short stories, Exhalation. This story is included in the book.
It's good, but not as good as his first book, imo, "Story of Your Life and Others". Story of Your Life was the inspiration for the movie "Arrival". That book was amazing.
- kaliatech 7y agoThe first story though, in Exhalation, "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate", is one of my favorites. It's also available standalone.
- jatsign 7y agoThat is a really good story. I think I kind of downgraded "Exhalation" a bit because I'd read that story before so it wasn't new to me.
- r3bl 7y agoIn any case, thanks for mentioning it. Thoroughly enjoyed Story of Your Life and Others and had no idea he released a second short story collection a few months ago. It's going straight to the top of my to-read list.
- mark_l_watson 7y agoThanks for the recommendation. I am part way through Exhalation, and I just bought “Story of Your Life and Others”. I really liked the movie Arrival - it is one of the few movies that I have purchased so I can watch it whenever I want. We really do live in a world with so much great entertainment in the forms of literary art and movies.