The Story of Your Life Author: [US] Ted Chiang Translator: Hacken Lee/Wang Rongsheng/Yao Xianghui Publisher: Yilin Press

★ The original novel of the science fiction blockbuster "Arrival".

★ The representative work of Chinese-American science fiction genius Ted Chiang, a mind-blowing work that has won awards around the world.

★ Starts from the core of science and ends 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 Locus Awards, and three Japan Science Fiction Awards, in addition to 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.

"Story of Your Life" collects eight of Ted Chiang's early works: "Story of Your Life", the original novel of the movie "Arrival", his debut novel "Tower of Babylon", as well as "Realization", "Division by Zero", "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 between heaven and earth.

With just a small bottle of potion, you can have superhuman wisdom. This temptation is irresistible. Unfortunately, there is more than one Superman. After a thrilling Superman showdown, you will realize the ultimate wisdom.

Any number divided 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 the scientific research results of post-humans, is there still a need for such research?

The wife dies when the 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.

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