Paperback, 296 pages
Italiano language
Published Oct. 9, 2008 by Stampalternativa.
Se gli uomini avessero costruito una torre fino al cielo? Se un farmaco incrementasse l'intelligenza? Se i fondamenti della matematica fossero arbitrari e inconsistenti? Se l'esposizione a una scrittura aliena modificasse la nostra percezione del tempo? Se una scienza del dare nomi chiamasse alla vita la materia inanimata? Se la ricerca scientifica fosse monopolio di una casta di mutanti? Se angeli di salvezza e distruzione apparissero quotidianamente per le strade? Se ci fosse modo di rimanere indifferenti alla bellezza fisica?
This is one of those science fiction books that really manage to blow your mind with the possibilities that the writer proposes. As a short story collection, you're always left out wanting more of the stories. But they are as long as they have to be.
At this point, I'll read anything from Ted Chiang after having read several short story collections and articles. If you only want to read one collection, I think Exhalation had more stories that will stick with me for a long time than the ones from this earlier collection, but I really enjoyed so many bits of this one too.
特德姜擅长把一个概念拓展成一个世界。他的故事是另一个世界的一片截面，常常是我们随着主角一起去探索世界。其力量感也正在于此。
我特别喜欢审美滤镜那篇。
Every story in this collection left its distinct aftertaste. I didn't find the style mind-bending. However, his plots are strong, really really strong.
One of my favorite short stories. The ending made me also stand up and shout in wonderment
Each story sticks with you in a unique way. Written smartly, with pacing that I haven't seen even in an anthology of short stories in quite a long time. I strongly recommend this book to everyone I know. You'll really enjoy it.
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.
