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(The Arrival movie was based on) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The Book Pile

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Introduction

The basis for the movie Arrival is one of my all time favorite sci-fi works. The main short story is called Story of Your Life, and it's like he made it plural twice. He changed it to Stories of Your Life and Others. I'm Kellen Ersk and I'm a comic, a father, and someone who experiences time as a circle all at once. So I really connected with these stories.

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