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Tilde Lowengrimm finished reading Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others (Hardcover, 2002, Tor)

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent …

Seventy-two letters continues to be one of my absolute favorite shorts. I think that it could also make a fantastic novel. There are so many little details which are only touched on for a moment and which I think deserve whole chapters of exploration. But maybe that's just because they push very specific buttons in my brain.

phildini, while reading replied to Tilde Lowengrimm's status

@tilde@bookwyrm.social huh maybe I should re-read this, it's been years but I did love it.

Tilde Lowengrimm replied to phildini, while reading's status

@phildini@boundcovers.com I'd definitely endorse that. I didn't get much out of rereading Exhalation, and there are some tales in this collection which just don't mean much to me. But the ones I remember with feeling still have it. I am personally tempted to write Seventy-Two Letters fanfiction.