01-05-2018, 04:09 PM
The main story (Story of Your Life) is the basis of Arrival. And it's a stunning story, blending two threads about alien contact and personal reminiscences, with a (to me) surprising twist at the end that is connected to alien language concept. It's a great story, I thought a truly stunning construction, and I don't see how you could possibly make a movie from it, unless you ignored most of it.
Another story was about a person who becomes super intelligent as a side effect from an experimental medical procedure. It went somewhere strange at the end and was also very good.
In a couple of stories he takes an alternate cosmology and does kind of a Hard SF take within that universe. One with the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament world, and one in modern times with angelic and demonic visitations happening all the time. Both were quite good.
There were two other stories that I just couldn't get interested in, but still I would call the book a winner. The guy can really write.
Another story was about a person who becomes super intelligent as a side effect from an experimental medical procedure. It went somewhere strange at the end and was also very good.
In a couple of stories he takes an alternate cosmology and does kind of a Hard SF take within that universe. One with the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament world, and one in modern times with angelic and demonic visitations happening all the time. Both were quite good.
There were two other stories that I just couldn't get interested in, but still I would call the book a winner. The guy can really write.
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