![]() In 2002, a collection of eight of his stories was published, Stories of Your Life and Others. And it is.Ĭhiang has not written a great deal of sf, but what he has written, mostly novellas, is haunting, beautiful, rigorous, and difficult to pin down. But people who are familiar with Ted Chiang's brilliant novellas would be expecting a novel-length work to be worth the price. If one somehow wanted to quibble about getting value for money with such a short novel, surely the careful and aesthetically pleasing production would mute such complaints. ![]() The cover and inside illustrations are done in grays with touches of maroon, and the pages are of high-quality paper clearly printed. THE LIFECYCLE OF SOFTWARE OBJECTS by Ted Chiang is itself a lovely object, a slim volume with a linen-textured cloth cover and heavy paper dust jacket. ![]()
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