A review by dkai
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

4.0

Some well-executed hypothetical worlds with very fleshed-out details. My main complaints are the lack of human connection in each story; unlike The Paper Menagerie, which I recently read, these works feel like distant documentaries rather than immersive tales. This is why Story of Your Life is the strongest of the stories in here, as it succeeds best in blending the human life with the hypothetical alien contact. I also enjoyed the Babylon and Hell stories for their fun concepts.