{"product_id":"2940170544486","title":"Stories of Your Life and Others","description":"This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, \u003ci\u003eStories of Your Life and Others\u003c\/i\u003e, includes his first eight published stories. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers listeners the dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStories of Your Life and Others\u003c\/i\u003e presents characters who must confront sudden change-the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens-while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy. In the amazing and much-lauded title story (the basis for the 2016 movie \u003ci\u003eArrival\u003c\/i\u003e), a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her knowledge of alien languages and non-linear memory recollection. A clever pastiche of news reports and interviews chronicles a college's initiative to \"turn off\" the human ability to recognize beauty in \"Liking What You See: A Documentary.\" With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty and constant change, and also by beauty and wonder.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115394646256,"sku":"2940170544486","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170544486_p0.jpg?v=1763712149","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170544486","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}