La tour de Babylone

416 pages

French language

Published April 18, 2010 by Éditions Gallimard.

ISBN:
978-2-07-040688-3
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Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF.

Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer's stories so far--plus an eighth story written especially for this volume.

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven--and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? …

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Didn't love this book, which is a collection of unrepated short stories. I found Story of Your Life (on which the new movie Arrival is based) to be wonderful, but the others were not my favorites. Each felt like a solid premise, but the exploration of that premise was uneventful across the various stories. Glad to have read Story of Your Life though -- very interesting to see what the movie was faithful to, and where it diverged.

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