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Story of Your Life Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Other stories by Ted Chiang include, but are not limited to: "Tower of Babylon" (1990); "Hell is the Absence of God" (2001); "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007); "Exhalation" (2009); "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" (2010); "The Great Silence" (2015); and "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" (2019).

For more Nebula Awards for best novellas, see: The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker; The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window by Rachel Swirsky; The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson; After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress; The Weight of the Sunrise by Vylar Kaftan; Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress; Binti by Nnedi Okorafor; ...

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Story of Your Life study guide contains a biography of Ted Chiang, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

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