Ted Chiang’s Arrival, previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others, includes “Story Of Your Life,” the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Ted Chiang has long been known as one of the most powerful science fiction writers working today. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar,Arrival presents characters who must confront sudden change. “Story of Your Life,” which provides the basis for the film Arrival,concerns the presence of alien lifeforms on Planet Earth. When a linguist is brought in to help communicate…
