Stories of Your Life and Others

(2002) _by Ted Chiang [4.4] What amazes me most about Ted Chiang’s stories is their richness—the level of detail which the author managed to weave into the stories without having them turn into fluff. Artfully executed, uniformly good through excellent—which is by no means par for the course in single-author collections! Reminds me the most of Greg Egan’s Axiomatic collection, except Chiang manages to keep his characters optimistic. - @mihailim