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Great Collection of Short Stories for the Most Part

January 4, 2017 by Classic 8 Comments

Please note that I gave this book 4.5 stars and rounded it up to 5 here on Cannonball Read 9. So I got this book via the library and boy was there a long wait. I think the movie “Arrival” is the main reason why this one took so long to get via Overdrive. I saw Arrival right after the elections and seriously, that was the movie I needed to see at that point. In a big theater with several hundred people getting to watch […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: science fiction, short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang

Classic's CBR9 Review No:5 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: science fiction, short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang ·
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The Confluence of Conflicting Ideas

January 4, 2017 by melanir 2 Comments

I mentioned this in a review last year, but I’ve been in a huge reading slump. I’ve just been so unmotivated to finish anything. According to Goodreads I’ve been reading this particular book since the end of November, meaning it took me over a month to finish it which is really unusual for me. I’m hoping the goal I’ve set for myself this year will goad me into reading more, but I’ve also given myself permission to completely fail at it so that anxiety doesn’t […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: short stories, Ted Chiang

melanir's CBR9 Review No:1 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: short stories, Ted Chiang ·
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The Lifecycle of Software Objects #CBR6

January 13, 2014 by Fiat.Luxury 2 Comments

I wasn’t much into sci-fi until I met my other half.  He has introduced me to a few of his favorite authors and I have grown to appreciate the genre much more over the last few years.  Neither of us had read any Ted Chiang, whose name always pops up in sci fi discussions, so together we read his collection of excellent short stories, Stories Of Your Life And Others, which I highly recommend. At 150 pages, The Lifecycle of Software Objects is the longest […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, Lifecycle of Software Objects, science fiction, Ted Chiang

Fiat.Luxury's CBR6 Review No:3 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, Lifecycle of Software Objects, science fiction, Ted Chiang ·
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