On Stories of Your Life

Chiang, Ted. Stories of Your Life: and Others. Reprint ed. New York: Vintage, 2010. pp. 285. eBook. $8.99.

Ted Chiang is the best, and he needs no real introduction. The best-known story here is “Story of Your Life” (better known as the film Arrival), but the best story, I think, is “Hell Is the Absence of God.” All of them left me thinking afterward, and I still am. The last few stories in my edition were also in Exhalation, so I skipped them.