‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story · Gwern.net
Famous Ted Chiang SF short story ‘Story Of Your Life’ is usually misinterpreted as, like the movie version <em>Arrival</em>, being about time-travel/precognition; I explain it is instead an exploration of xenopsychology and a psychology of timeless physics.
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