YAY. I'm so glad you liked these. Chiang is also under my "will read whatever" categpory, and "Story of Your Life" is one of the things I think everyone has to read-- it's just that good :)
I love all the stories, though "Story" is my favorite, and I have a sneaky fondness for "Seventy-Two Letters," probably because I remember learning about the theory that reproduction did work that way. Oh, and "Division by Zero" breaks my heart-- it's so perceptive. The only one I think is wobbly-so's-I-notice is "Understand," which may also be because I don't do well in general with stories where the protagonist is supposed to be smarter than me. ("Hey, I saw that plot twist coming fifty pages ago, what's your problem?")
(My husband also pointed out a physics flaw in "Tower of Babel," but I love it madly anyway, so there.)
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Date: 2008-10-17 05:35 pm (UTC)I love all the stories, though "Story" is my favorite, and I have a sneaky fondness for "Seventy-Two Letters," probably because I remember learning about the theory that reproduction did work that way. Oh, and "Division by Zero" breaks my heart-- it's so perceptive. The only one I think is wobbly-so's-I-notice is "Understand," which may also be because I don't do well in general with stories where the protagonist is supposed to be smarter than me. ("Hey, I saw that plot twist coming fifty pages ago, what's your problem?")
(My husband also pointed out a physics flaw in "Tower of Babel," but I love it madly anyway, so there.)