A wow story
Mar. 4th, 2012 03:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabeth"Story of your life" by Ted Chiang
winner of the 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novella
so I'm a bit behind on noticing it's really very good.
Also, now I want to show it to Daniel Jackson.
It's about language and ways of seeing the world and it builds up slowly but as quickly as it can and clicks together with that beautiful inevitability of a story where all the parts are doing their work.
It's about aliens and mothers and daughters and not understanding each other and why it's good talking anyway.
... if it could be said as quickly as an 'it's about' statement it wouldn't need to be a novella.
I stopped reading to tell the internet I likes it.
winner of the 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novella
so I'm a bit behind on noticing it's really very good.
Also, now I want to show it to Daniel Jackson.
It's about language and ways of seeing the world and it builds up slowly but as quickly as it can and clicks together with that beautiful inevitability of a story where all the parts are doing their work.
It's about aliens and mothers and daughters and not understanding each other and why it's good talking anyway.
... if it could be said as quickly as an 'it's about' statement it wouldn't need to be a novella.
I stopped reading to tell the internet I likes it.
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Date: 2012-03-05 01:47 pm (UTC)I like all of Ted Chiang's I've read, though of course some I just barely like and others I'm exuberant about.