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With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmame...
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Picador,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: |
2020. ©2002 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality. . . Chiang's rigorously imagined fantasia invites us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it. |
| Item Description: | Originally published: New York : Tor, 2002. |
| Carrier Form: | 338 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781529039436 1529039436 |
| Index Number: | PS3603 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/C532-9 |
| Contents: | Tower of Babylon -- Understand -- Division by zero -- Story of your life -- Seventy-two letters -- Evolution of human science -- Hell is the absence of God -- Liking what you see: a documentary. |