WIRED Book Club: ‘The Story of Your Life’ Is Making Us Weep, Sometimes in Public
WIRED Book Club: ‘The Story of Your Life’ Is Making Us Weep, Sometimes in Public
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February 17, 201712m 46s
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Show Notes
Our language and our conception of time have much in common. Both proceed as a march, one thing after another. (You’re not reading this sentence backward, just as you can’t travel back in time.) From that, well, straightforward observation spring the wondrous complexities of Ted Chiang’s 1998 sci-fi short story, “The Story of Your Life” (the basis for last year’s hit movie Arrival).
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