Book · recommended on 3 episodes
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang ISBN 1931520720
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Ted Chiang ISBN 1931520720
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This book by Ted Chiang has come up 3 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-12-28 and the most recent from 2025-04-17. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award for 1990. Now, collected for the first time, are all seven of this extraordinary writer's extraordinary stories--plus a new story written especially for this volume.
“Ted Chang ... has two collections of short stories ... It's like stories of your life and other stories. one of those short stories was the basis for the movie Arrival”— Tim Ferriss
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“he's absurdly, absurdly good... So Ted Chiang for science fiction would be my starting point.”— Tim Ferriss
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“the author ted chang has a lot i recommend his his writings his short stories”— guest
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