Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wonderful. Stories with ideas you don’t just consider for a moment, but return to again and again.
What if you could remember your future? What if heaven, hell, angels and miracles are real, but reward for your faith is completely arbitrary?
If I knew this, I’d forgotten it, so I was happy to discover that the story “Story of Your Life,” was the basis for the film “Arrival.” Probably my favorite film of the last few years. Imagine a language that requires knowledge of the future in order to be properly contextualized.