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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Arrival - Ted Chiang</h1> |
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2017-02-28 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/ted-chiang/">#ted chiang</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fantasy/">#fantasy</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-5/">#stars:5</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2002/">#published:2002</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31625351-arrival">GoodReads Summary</a>: |
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From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the heavens |
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above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part |
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of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of |
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physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of |
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time and reality... Chiang's rigorously imagined stories invite us to question |
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our understanding of the universe and our place in it.</p> |
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★★★★★ |
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<p>I'll be honest (again) and admit that I bought the book because of the movie |
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(again -- the same thing happened with [book:All You Need Is |
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Kill|6255949]/Edge of Tomorrow). This time, though, I haven't seen the movie |
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yet, so I basically "read the movie" before watching it.</p> |
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<p>Thing is, this is <em>not</em> just about Arrival. It's a collection of stories by |
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Ted Chiang -- one of them is "The Story of Your Life", which is the base for |
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the movie. You have "Tower of Babylon", which is kinda like a fantasy story if |
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said tower actually reached the heavens; "Understand", which takes a stab in a |
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"Limitless" kinda-way; "Division By Zero", which talks about mathematics but |
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it is actually about people (Pro-tip: if you read, keep an eye on the |
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"chapter" numbers; it will explain the story); "Story of Your Life", which, |
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again, is the base for the Arrival movie; "Seventy-Two Letters", about a world |
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where golems and controlling stuff with written stuff actually exists; "The |
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Evolution About Human Science", a short story about a future when humans can't |
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keep up with their own science; "Hell is the Absence of God", about angels |
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(although the author explains it in the end, it felt much more like "this is |
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hell" than anything else); and "Liking What You See: A Documentary", which |
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feels like a huge discussion about beauty and propaganda.</p> |
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<p>In general, all stories are pretty easy and interesting to read -- reading the |
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whole book in two days may be a testament of this. The whole style reminded me |
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of Asimov's writing, although I could skip half paragraphs without missing |
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anything in the story, while that wouldn't be an option in Asimov stories.</p> |
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<p>The endings are also kinda loose, but because there are hidden clues about the |
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story itself in other parts -- like in "Division By Zero" -- I guess I just |
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didn't <em>get</em> them yet.</p> |
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