The Story of Your Life

Tower of Babylon
understanding
If you divide by zero
The story of your life
Seventy-two letters
The evolution of human science
Hell is the absence of God
A Brief Essay on Lookism: A Documentary

Creative Notes
Acknowledgements
Translator's Note

"breath"

The Gate of the Merchant and the Alchemist
breath
What we have to do
Life cycle of software objects
Daisy's mechanical automatic nanny
Factual truth, emotional truth
Great silence
Omphalos
Anxiety is the vertigo of freedom

Creative Notes
Acknowledgements
Translator's Note

"Story of Your Life" is Ted Chiang's first collection of works that established him as a "master of unparalleled imagination" and introduced him to the world. With material of a completely different dimension based on scientific imagination and a surprising narrative that consistently evokes admiration, he has swept all the awards given to the best science fiction.
In this collection, Ted Chiang explores the scientific-philosophical discourses that have had a profound impact on human society and will likely continue to do so from as many different perspectives as possible, while presenting them in deeply human metaphors.
"The Story of Your Life," which raises philosophical questions about an uncertain future through a unique and dense imagination and speaks about the "value of humanity," is the most anticipated collection of contemporary works.

Ted Chiang's second collection of short stories, "Breath," is his first in 17 years since the publication of "Story of Your Life" in 2002. It includes a total of nine short stories, including the title story, "Breath," which won the Locus Award, the Hugo Award, and the British Science Fiction Society Award.
Among the included works, “Omphalos” and “Anxiety is the Vertigo of Freedom” are short stories being published for the first time.
In this fantastical and elegant collection of works that explore time travel, artificial intelligence, extraterrestrial intelligence, parallel universes, free will, biological and digital memory, and the future of humanity, Ted Chiang grapples with some of humanity's oldest questions through a fresh and imaginative lens.
And it clearly demonstrates that great science fiction can evoke beauty, meaning, and empathy.
Furthermore, the 'creative setting, original development, and heart-pounding narrative' shown in the previous work, 'Story of Your Life', remain intact, and the cold yet warm gaze on human existence is revealed even more sharply.