Ted Chiang wrote the story the movie Arrival is based on - and many of his other stories are even better!
In this episode we review and discuss Exhalation and Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang's two short story collections.
These seventeen stories are full of novel scientific ideas, wonderful characters, and thoughtful takes on the morality of future technologies and how they will change society. We certainly aren't alone in thinking they're wonderful - Ted Chiang has won four Hugos, four Nebulas, and four Locus awards for his stories.
As always, we also recommend and discuss some similar books if you're looking for more great sci fi short story collections to read. This week, we recommend The Paper Menagerie and other Stories by Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, and Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut.
If you'd prefer to watch the video version, you can watch it here.