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This brand-new version of Ted Chiang's outstanding first selection, Stories of One's Life and Others, contains his first eight printed stories as well as the author's tale an address and records the author commissioned herself. Mixing the accuracy and medical attention of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Mooreis awesome, obvious love of language and story difficulty, this award winning series provides visitors the twin pleasures of the very, very unusual and the heartbreakingly familiar.Stories of One's Life and Others provides figures who should face unexpected change—the unavoidable increase of automatons or even the look of aliens—while trying to steadfastly keep up some sense of normalcy. Within the incredible and much-praised title tale, a grieving mother deals with divorce and the death of her child by drawing on her non-linear storage remembrance and understanding of unfamiliar dialects. A brilliant pastiche of information interviews and reviews chronicles an university's effort to "turn fully off" the individual capability to understand beauty in "Liking That Which You See: A Documentary." With well-defined intellect and laughter, Chiang investigates what this means to be living in a global marked by anxiety and continuous change, and additionally by elegance and wonder.Ted Chiang is among the most famous science fiction writers writing today and may be the writer of numerous stories, including most recently "Exhalation," which won the Hugo, British Science Fiction, and Locus awards.