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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 heavens...
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Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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 heavens 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 |
| Carrier Form: | 338 pages ; 20 cm |
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9781509835904 1509835903 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/C532-5 |
| Contents: | Tower of Babylon -- Understand -- Division by zero -- Story of your life -- Seventy-two letters -- The evolution of human science -- Hell is the absence of God -- Liking what you see : a documentary. |