The story of your life

STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS

★ The original novel of the science fiction blockbuster "Arrival".
★ A representative work by Chinese-American science fiction genius Ted Chiang, a mind-blowing work that has won awards around the world.
★ Start with scientific core and end with humanistic care: If you are destined to lose, would you be afraid of having it?
★ Ted Chiang is on every “must-read science fiction” list.
Ted Chiang is one of the best science fiction writers of our time.
After 30 years of debut and only 17 short stories, he has won four Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, three Trails Awards, and three Japan Science Fiction Awards. In addition, he has also won the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Sturgeon Medal, and the Campbell Medal.
Liu Cixin: Science fiction imagination sometimes has the power of God, able to create an imaginary world and make it run vividly. "The Tower of Babel" is the most shocking work in this regard.
The Story of Your Life brings together eight of Ted Chiang's early works: The Story of Your Life, the original novel of the movie Arrival, his debut novel The Tower of Babel, as well as Enlightenment, Divided by Zero, The Seventy-Two Letters, The Evolution of Human Science, Hell is the Absence of God, and Feast for the Eyes.
A linguist learns an alien language that completely changes her worldview.
In order to get closer to God, humans cut wood, burned bricks, pulled carts and built towers. After countless generations of hard work, they finally built a towering Tower of Babel that stood between heaven and earth.
With just a small potion, you can gain superhuman wisdom, a temptation that no one can resist. Unfortunately, there is more than one Superman. After a thrilling Superman showdown, you will realize the ultimate wisdom.
Dividing any number by zero will not produce a meaningful result. What will be the result of dividing the feelings between two people by zero?
In a world where "names drive everything", nomenclature designers play with seventy-two letters to find the code for the reproduction of the human race.
When all human scientific research is limited to interpreting post-human scientific research results, is there still a need for such research?
The wife dies when an angel descends to earth, but the husband must learn how to love God so that he can be reunited with his wife in the afterlife.

2019-12-01

译林出版社

322

9787544779364