Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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Ted Chiang
Class/Genre: Science Fiction [Short Stories]
Tor, Jul 2002, $24.95, 331 pp.
As far as this reviewer knows, Ted Chiang has never written a novel and has never had his short stories published in one volume until this collection. Though a multi-award winning science fiction author, short story writers rarely gain the acclaim of novelists however, Mr. Chiang deserves that and more. The eight stories that comprise STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS are incredible tales that are fresh, unique, and well written while deploying ideas to represent deep social problems facing individuals and society. The octet runs much of the gamut of science fiction. Regardless of the sub-genre exemplified each contribution shares in common with the other stories, the author’s uncanny ability to entertain an audience that ponders concepts rarely seen as deep in so few words as Mr. Chiang accomplishes with this worthy anthology.
Harriet Klausner
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