![]() ![]() ![]() Still, the most surprising thing is how much feeling accompanies the intellectual exercises. 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. Reading a Chiang story means juggling multiple conceptions of what is normal and right. 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. Chiang has mastered an extremely tricky type of SF story. In this case, though, the hype is deserved. 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. Chiang has acquired a massive reputation on the basis of very few pieces of short fiction. Here's the first must-read SF book of the year. ![]()
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