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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Now filmed as Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.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. A new film, Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker, is based on one of the stories in this collection.
What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were inconsistent? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? These are among the questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang, eight of which are presented here.
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