6/20/2023 0 Comments Chiang ted story of your lifeIt contributes to the Freewill and Fate debate in philosophy and theology from a science-fiction perspective. I was pretty shaken after finishing the story. I googled to learn about "Fermat's principle", "teleology", "ideograms", and some related linguistic terms. I also liked that I had to google and learn several things while reading the story. Ted Chiang gives a lot of credit to the readers' intelligence. And as you keep reading, the story drops on you more clues, and you feel both smart and awed, when you first piece together that Gary was indeed the linguist's (Louise) first husband, and the daughter is not dead yet due to the climbing accident. Right at that first page, you get the idea that something is not right and this is going to be an interesting read. The first couple pages of the book had some weird/mixed usage of the past future tense. Back in November, before the movie was released, I read it in less than 2 hours, in one breath. The "Story of Your Life" is the science-fiction story which the Arrival film was based on.
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