![]() “Tower of Babylon”, which tries to invent a plausible way to construct a miles-tall tower with Bronze Age technology and ties it into the old Biblical model of the firmament, is a fun way to start the collection, and “Seventy-Two Letters” mashes up various bits of Medieval esoterica ( homunculi, golems, Kabbalah and the true name) with Malthusianism, quines and Victorian social worries into a very believable melange. ![]() ![]() The other is more Gaiman-esque, taking a germ of an idea from religion or mythology and building a consistent universe around it.įunny as this may sound coming from me, I think the latter are a lot better. The first is the classic Asimov-style stuff, about how a scientist or scientifically-minded person comes to terms with a discovery that turns reality as we know it on its head. Stories of Your Life and Others is a sci-fi short story collection, semi-punningly named after it’s most famous story “Story of Your Life” – you might know it as the movie Arrival.Īlthough they are all more-or-less about alternative and impossible scientific systems, the stories can be roughly divided into two classes. Dove also wrote her thoughts on this one, and hers are better, but here’s mine. ![]()
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