Cancel Delete. Cancel Overwrite Save. Don't wait! Try Yumpu. Start using Yumpu now! Terms of service. Privacy policy. Cookie policy. Change language. In the 'Story Notes' section of Stories of Your Life and Others , Chiang writes that inspiration for 'Story of Your Life' came from his fascination in the variational principle in physics.
Stephen Hawking But remembering the future is child's play for me now. I know what will become of my helpless, trusting babies because they are grown-ups now. I know how my closest friends will end up because so many of them are retired or dead now To Stephen Hawking and all others younger than myself I say: 'Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and likes you no matter what you are. In a interview Chiang said that 'Story of Your Life' addresses the subject of free will.
The philosophical debates about whether or not we have free will are all abstract, but knowing the future makes the question very real. Chiang added, 'If you know what's going to happen, can you keep it from happening? Even when a story says that you can't, the emotional impact arises from the feeling that you should be able to.
Chiang spent five years researching and familiarizing himself in the field of linguistics before attempting to write 'Story of Your Life. Gleick wrote 'For us ordinary mortals, the day-to-day experience of a preordained future is almost unimaginable', but Chiang does just that in this story, he 'imagine[s] it'. Writing in Kirkus Reviews Ana Grilo called it a 'thought-provoking, beautiful story'. The book that brought black literature to the str.
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