Ted Chiang 2 Books Collection Set Stories of Your Life & Others, Exhalation NEW

Name: Ted Chiang 2 Books Collection Set Stories of Your Life & Others, Exhalation NEW
Brand: Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang

Description:. Titles in this Set:. Stories of Your Life and Others. Exhalation. Condition:BRAND NEW. Format :Paperback. ISBN: 9789124197384. Stories of Your Life and Others:. With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose.From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality, Chiang’s rigorously imagined fantasias invite us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it.. Exhalation:. In ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’, a portal through time forces a fabric-seller in ancient Baghdad to...