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A review by tiredcreature
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
• Tower of Babylon: Babylonian sci-fi (3.5/5)
• Understand: superpowered redditors do mind battle (2/5)
• Division by zero: mathematician discovers that mathematics is inconsistent; experiences a crisis (4/5)
• Stories of your life: linguist learns alien language, gains chronologically non-linear memory (5/5)
• Seventy-two letters: steampunk Hebrew true name magic ft. 19th-century-typical eugenics (5/5)
• The evolution of human science: what becomes of human science when we invent metahumans, who are more intelligent and capable than a human could ever become? (??/5 - feels incomplete)
• Hell is the absence of god: Christian horror; monstrous divinity (4/5)
• Liking what you see: fictional documentary transcript; discussion of neuromodification (4/5)
• Understand: superpowered redditors do mind battle (2/5)
• Division by zero: mathematician discovers that mathematics is inconsistent; experiences a crisis (4/5)
• Stories of your life: linguist learns alien language, gains chronologically non-linear memory (5/5)
• Seventy-two letters: steampunk Hebrew true name magic ft. 19th-century-typical eugenics (5/5)
• The evolution of human science: what becomes of human science when we invent metahumans, who are more intelligent and capable than a human could ever become? (??/5 - feels incomplete)
• Hell is the absence of god: Christian horror; monstrous divinity (4/5)
• Liking what you see: fictional documentary transcript; discussion of neuromodification (4/5)
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicide