你一生的故事

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Ted Chiang: 你一生的故事 (中文 language, 2015, 译林出版社)

中文 language

Published May 5, 2015 by 译林出版社.

OCLC Number:
761408

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5 stars (7 reviews)

Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by American writer Ted Chiang originally published in 2002 by Tor Books. It collects Chiang's first eight stories. All of the stories except "Liking What You See: A Documentary" were previously published individually elsewhere. It was reprinted in 2016 as Arrival to coincide with the adaptation of "Story of Your Life" as the film Arrival. Chiang's second collection, Exhalation: Stories was released in 2019.

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Tremenda originalidad en ciencia ficción

4 stars

Si bien estos cuentos pueden considerarse "ciencia ficción", se me ocurre describirlos mejor como "ingeniería mitológica" o algo por el estilo.

El autor toma ideas bíblicas, históricas y mitológicas, y utilizando su estética y misticismo para crear monumentos, máquinas, criaturas y manifestaciones a veces fantásticas, a veces retrofuturistas, y otras veces mágicas.

Leyendo estos cuentos pensaba que el autor toma una idea, la subvierte, y toma esa subversión y la explota al máximo, y luego un poco más. Su explotación de las ideas va muchísimo más allá de lo que uno se imagina que puede ofrecer dicha idea, y lo hace con gran originalidad y habilidad, logrando que cada paso extra se sienta coherente y no una exageración o un artificio barato para alargar la historia.

También hay un par de cuentos muy cortos, casi microrelatos de una o dos páginas, que están muy bien, y me gusta que el …

Goodreads Review of Stories of Your Life and Others

5 stars

Ted Chiang is the best, and I think he needs no explanation. The best-known story in here is "Story of Your Life" (better know as the film Arrival). But, I think the best story in here is "Hell is the Absence of God." All of the stories left me thinking a bit after, and I'm continuing to do so now. The last set of stories in my version were also in Exhalation, so I skipped over them.

Review of 'Stories of Your Life and Others' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Tower of Babylon: Tale about the construction of the Tower of Babylon. A bit boring.
Understand: Interesting tale about intelligence enhancement.
Division by Zero: What happen when everything that you believe in turns out to be false?
Story of you life: The better so far. I love how the process to understand the aliens is described.
Seventy two letters: A boring tale about the kabbalah made science.
The evolution of human science: what happen when superhumans make human science irrelevant.
Hell is the absence of god: Funny story about angels seen as natural catastrophes.
Liking what you see - a documentary: I like when science fiction show ideas that makes me uncomfortable.

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