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A comment on Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction.

Re:Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction by djhworld on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:59PM (#13989999)
Tower of Babylon was superb, I read it with the other short stories (can't remember the name of the collection) a month or so ago.

Wasn't so sure about the rest of them though, I felt the Babylon story kind of eclipsed all of them.

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Re:Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction by exhilaration on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:28PM (#13990255)
I got the audiobook from Audible [1] after reading about it on HN and that's the only story I asked my wife to listen to - she loved it and she's not a science fiction fan.

[1] http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Stories-of-Your-Lif...

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Re:Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction by iwintermute on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:39AM (#13994268)
Interesting - i've tried to find Ted's books on Audible several times with no results. And it happens to be regional restriction.

"We're sorry. Due to publishing rights restrictions, we are not authorized to sell this item in the country where you live."

Sigh.

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Re:Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction by himlion on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:11PM (#13990118)
I agree, it was the first story in the book and after that masterpiece it was hard for the other ones to live up to it.
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Re:Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction by ltnately on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:02PM (#13990038)
Stories of Your Life and Others.
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Re:Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction by voidifremoved on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:30PM (#13990767)
Agreed, that is the standout. I enjoyed the one about not being able to see beauty, but I felt it didn't go anywhere.

Stories Of Your Life takes the central idea of Slaughterhouse-Five and dresses it up with physics. Its good, but its like a remix more than anything.

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Re:Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction by sooheon on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:03AM (#13993696)
Interesting way to see it. If anything, Chiang took all the humor out of Vonnegut's story, which made the ludicrous bearable by making us laugh as well as cry.
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