The Resource Stories of your life and others, Ted Chiang
Stories of your life and others, Ted Chiang
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The item Stories of your life and others, Ted Chiang represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 10 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Stories of your life and others, Ted Chiang represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 10 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- Stories of your life and others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change -- the inevitable rise of automations or the appearance of aliens -- while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Extent
- 281 pages
- Note
-
- "Originally published: New York : Tor, ©2002"--Title page verso
- The story in this collection Story of Your Life was adapted into the 2016 motion picture Arrival
- Contents
-
- Story notes
- Tower of Babylon
- Understand
- Division by zero
- Story of your life
- Seventy-two letters
- The evolution of human science
- Hell is the absence of God
- Liking what you see: A documentary
- Isbn
- 9781101972120
- Label
- Stories of your life and others
- Title
- Stories of your life and others
- Statement of responsibility
- Ted Chiang
- Subject
-
- Science fiction
- Change (Psychology)
- trueScience fiction
- Automation -- Fiction
- Human-alien encounters
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Science fiction
- Life change events
- Adaptability (Psychology)
- Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General
- Change (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Adaptability (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Automation
- trueShort stories
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
- Short stories
- Short stories
- Fiction
- trueHard science fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueBooks to movies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Stories of your life and others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change -- the inevitable rise of automations or the appearance of aliens -- while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy
- Summary
- Presents a first collection of seven science fiction short stories, and includes an original tale, "Liking What You See: A Documentary" for this anthology
- Award
- Locus Award for Best Collection, 2003.
- Awards note
- Nebula Award for Best Novella, 1999
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 070167
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chiang, Ted
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- short stories
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Life change events
- Change (Psychology)
- Automation
- Human-alien encounters
- Adaptability (Psychology)
- Adaptability (Psychology)
- Automation
- Change (Psychology)
- Human-alien encounters
- Life change events
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Stories of your life and others, Ted Chiang
- Note
-
- "Originally published: New York : Tor, ©2002"--Title page verso
- The story in this collection Story of Your Life was adapted into the 2016 motion picture Arrival
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Story notes
- Tower of Babylon
- Understand
- Division by zero
- Story of your life
- Seventy-two letters
- The evolution of human science
- Hell is the absence of God
- Liking what you see: A documentary
- Control code
- ocn928119950
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Extent
- 281 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101972120
- Lccn
- 2016001193
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)928119950
- Label
- Stories of your life and others, Ted Chiang
- Note
-
- "Originally published: New York : Tor, ©2002"--Title page verso
- The story in this collection Story of Your Life was adapted into the 2016 motion picture Arrival
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Story notes
- Tower of Babylon
- Understand
- Division by zero
- Story of your life
- Seventy-two letters
- The evolution of human science
- Hell is the absence of God
- Liking what you see: A documentary
- Control code
- ocn928119950
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Extent
- 281 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101972120
- Lccn
- 2016001193
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)928119950
Subject
- Adaptability (Psychology)
- Adaptability (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Automation
- Automation -- Fiction
- trueBooks to movies
- Change (Psychology)
- Change (Psychology) -- Fiction
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction
- trueHard science fiction
- Human-alien encounters
- Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
- Life change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Science fiction
- trueScience fiction
- Science fiction
- trueShort stories
- Short stories
- Short stories
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueBooks to movies
- Fiction
- trueHard science fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueScience fiction
- trueShort stories
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