Exhalation

Stories

Tapa blanda, 329 páginas

Publicado el 1 de diciembre de 2019 por Yilin Press.

ISBN:
978-7-5447-7931-9
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Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory.

In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.

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Ted Chiang siempre bien

Un poco como en La historia de tu vida, hay cuentos de todo tipo. Lo que tienen en común es que siempre se dejan leer muy bien. Ciencia ficción, sí, pero con una vuelta de tuerca. No es lo típico leer saifai ambientado en el bagdad antiguo. La historia que da título al libro, aunque no fue mi preferida, sí que es muy alienígena e interesante de leer. Quizás lo que menos me gustó fue la historia más larga del libro, que va sobre IA, y aunque no me enganchó muchísimo la historia en sí, sí que quería ver a dónde iba, pero acaba de una forma tan abrupta que te deja con mal sabor... Una de las historias va sobre la lengua, la escritura y la comunicación (¡Hola, La historia de tu vida!) y se nota que es un tema que al autor le interesa, porque siempre es un …

Wonderful Collection of Short-ish Stories

I've not read anything else by Ted Chiang, and after getting this I noticed he also wrote the story that Arrival was based on (which I have seen and enjoyed) so I was looking forward to this.

The stories collected here all share a common humanity, while they are still kind of sci-fi based (and one isn't even written from the point of view of a human).

These stories definately made me think, but especially The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (I am a sucker for time travel stories, and this one works better than a lot of them because of the way the premise is set up), The Lifecycle of Software Objects (the story notes at the end really shed some light on the author's intent with this one), The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (a wonderful exploration of memory and how it effects us), …

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