“Your father is about to ask me the question.”
‘Story of Your Life’ was filmed as Arrival, which is how I came to hear of Ted Chiang and his extraordinarily precise, unblinking science-fiction stories. His stories are sometimes almost clinical in their clarity, but there’s always emotion in them, and none more so in this deeply moving tale.
First published in Starlight 2, 1998. Collected in Stories of Your Life and Others, Tor Books 2002
A Personal Anthology 