![]() ![]() ![]() Ted Chiang has 94 books on Goodreads with 151766 ratings. Widely celebrated as cerebral, meaningful sci-fi, it sent people flocking to the source material-a Chiang short called “Story of Your Life,” published in 1998 (well before the Internet and 1D I wouldn’t be surprised to learn Chiang built his own Tower of Babylon justĪ film adaptation by Eric Heisserer of “Story of Your Life”, titled Arrival and directed by Denis Villeneuve, was released in 2016 to a critical and commercial success. And you bet your sweet ass Chiang does, too, only of course he knows about it more than anybody out there. I’m not remotely religious, and I know about Babylon. Stories of Your Life and Others begins with “Tower of Babylon”, a story with a fairy-tale feel about the infamous biblical tower. Your review is pretty insightful.Although i digress on one issue.the idea of grokking, i feel, is derived from the Hindu ‘Advaita’ philosophy of being one with god whereas the concept in ‘story of your life’ is similar to the belief of everything being predestined(God Brahma having written everything about the universe/s beforehand).
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