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地球を訪れたエイリアンとのコンタクトを担当した言語学者ルイーズは、まったく異なる言語を理解するにつれ、驚くべき運命にまきこまれていく……ネビュラ賞を受賞した感動の表題作はじめ、天使の降臨とともにもたらされる災厄と奇跡を描くヒューゴー賞受賞作「地獄とは神の不在なり」、天まで届く塔を建設する驚天動地の物語--ネビュラ賞を受賞したデビュー作「バビロンの塔」ほか、本邦初訳を含む八篇を収録する傑作集。

地球を訪れたエイリアンとのコンタクトを担当した言語学者ルイーズは、まったく異なる言語を理解するにつれ、驚くべき運命にまきこまれていく…ネビュラ賞を受賞した感動の表題作はじめ、天使の降臨とともにもたらされる災厄と奇跡を描くヒューゴー賞受賞作「地獄とは神の不在なり」、天まで届く塔を建設する驚天動地の物語―ネビュラ賞を受賞したデビュー作「バビロンの塔」ほか、本邦初訳を含む八篇を収録する傑作集。

This marvelous collection by one of science fiction's most thoughtful and graceful writers belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in literary science fiction.

Collected here for the first time, Ted Chiang's award-winning stories--recipients of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Campbell, and Asimov awards--offer a feast of science, speculation, humanity, and lyricism. Standouts include "Tower of Babylon," in which a miner ascends the fabled tower in order to break through the vault of heaven; "Division by Zero," a precise and heartbreaking examination of the disintegration of hope and love; and "Story of Your Life," in which a linguist learns an alien language that reshapes her view of the world. Chiang has the gift that lies at the heart of good science fiction: a human story, beautifully told, in which the science is an expression of the deeper issues that the characters must confront. Full of remarkable ideas and unforgettable moments, Stories of Your Life and Others is highly recommended. --Roz Genessee
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Here's the first must-read SF book of the year. Chiang has acquired a massive reputation on the basis of very few pieces of short fiction. This collection contains all six previously published tales, including the Nebula Award-winning "Tower of Babylon," plus a new story, "Liking What You See: A Documentary." It's rare for a writer to become so prominent so fast. In this case, though, the hype is deserved. Chiang has mastered an extremely tricky type of SF story. He begins with a startling bit of oddity, then, as readers figure out what part of the familiar world has been twisted, they realize that it was just a small part of a much larger structure of marvelous, threatening strangeness. Reading a Chiang story means juggling multiple conceptions of what is normal and right. Probably this kind of brain twisting can be done with such intensity only in shorter lengths; if these stories were much longer, readers' heads might explode. Still, the most surprising thing is how much feeling accompanies the intellectual exercises. Whether their initial subject is ancient Babylonians building a tower that reaches the base of Heaven, translation of an alien language that shows a woman a new way to view her life as a mother, or mass-producing golems in an alternative Victorian England, Chiang's stories are audacious, challenging and moving. They resemble the work of a less metaphysical Philip K. Dick or a Borges with more characterization and a grasp of cutting-edge science.
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Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF.

Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer's stories so far-plus an eighth story written especially for this volume. What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Stories of your life . . . and others.
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"Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales...this collection is a pure marvel. [Ted] Chiang is so exhilarating so original so stylish he just leaves you speechless. I always suggest a person read at least 52 books a year for proper mental functioning but if you only have time for one, be at peace: you found it."--Junot Diaz
"Meticulously pieced together, utterly thought through, Chiang's stories emerge slowly...but with the perfection of slow-growing crystal."--Lev Grossman
"United by a humane intelligence that speaks very directly to the reader, and makes us experience each story with immediacy and Chiang's calm passion."--China Mieville
"Ted is a national treasure...each of those stories is a goddamned jewel."--Cory Doctorow, "BoingBoing"
"Confirms that blending science and fine art at this length can produce touching works, tales as intimate as our own blood cells, with the structural strength of just-discovered industrial alloys."--"Seattle Times"
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TED CHIANG lives near Seattle, Washington.
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チャン,テッド
1967年、ニューヨーク州ポート・ジェファーソン生まれ。ブラウン大学でコンピュータ・サイエンスを専攻し、1989年に卒業。現在はワシントン州シアトル近郊で、フリーランスのテクニカル・ライターをつとめながら創作活動を続けている。大学卒業の年に、有名なSF創作講座クラリオン・ワークショップに参加し、翌年に発表したデビュー作「バビロンの塔」がネビュラ賞を受賞した。以後、発表する作品はヒューゴー賞、ネビュラ賞、ローカス賞などを受賞、英米ではもちろんのこと、日本でも高い評価を受けている(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)