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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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The Importance of Sci-Fi in Fiction

For me, this book was the inverse of these other short story collections that I mentioned earlier because most of the stories I thought in this book are top notch. They have super interesting ideas, a writing style that's intelligent, but also evokes rate-alatable, like grounded situations and feelings. Two stories that I probably wouldn't care to revisit upon rereading it, which were 72 letters and division by zero,. So that might be on me. But in general, the genre of these stories to me are like if Ray Bradbury used actual science.

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