Wick Welker's Reviews > Stories of Your Life and Others

Priceless.

I read Chiang's Exhalation before I read Stories of Your Life and I was just as amazed at this collection. Chiang is wholly unique and brings both simplicity and innovate concepts to the reader. From the Tower of Babel to mathematic paradoxes, the reader gets a rich blend of provocative ideas and subversion of classic tropes. The only downside to Chiang's writing style is you may not get classic arcs that you're expecting. What I mean is, several of the stories here just kind of end with no real resolution and Chiang leaves the meaning just hanging there for you to guess. This may be jarring for some people. This collection along with Exhalation is like Ray Bradbury's Illustrated Man of a new generation.

This is a total gem and a classic.