Stories of Your Life and Other Stories - Ted Chiang

  • Notes
    • I liked Ted Chiang’s stories. It’s very apparent that his atheism are reflected on his stories, especially the story Hell Is the Absence of God
    • Some of the stories I loved in priority
      • Story of your life
        • This is the story from which [[Movie/Arrival]] was based from.
        • I liked how the narration in the story has superposition of present, past and future
          • I mean the writing structure itself is how the main protagonist (the narrator in the story) got influenced from the aliens (hexapods) while understanding their own languages
      • Understand
        • This is also a nice story, where the main character developed super intelligence and super awareness of everything
        • The ending could have been better
          • Instead of having a battle to another human just like the main character, it could have been symbiotic
      • Tower of Babylon
        • I also liked how Ted Chiang took Flat Earth Theory literally and experimented on what it would feel for a human to climb this infinite tower
        • I liked the ending because the universe is cylindrical.
          • So, when the main character reaches the top and gets drown in the water, he ends up back to the earth’s surface