Books like Stories of Your Life and Others
Eight stories spanning alien linguistics, time travel, and the nature of mathematical truth, including the novella that became the film Arrival.
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Exhalation
Nine stories that use science fiction premises to explore free will, time, language, and the nature of consciousness with philosophical precision.
Contact
Ellie Arroway, a radio astronomer, picks up a signal from the star Vega that turns out to carry the plans for a machine, and the world has to decide whether to build it and who should go.
The Telling
An observer on a distant world discovers that the planet's authoritarian government has banned storytelling itself, and the act of reading becomes resistance.
Hominids
Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth where his species survived, is accidentally transported into a neutrino detector deep under Ontario.
Solaris
Kris Kelvin, a psychologist, arrives at the research station hovering over the ocean planet Solaris to find one of its three scientists dead, the other two barely holding together, and people walking its corridors who should not be there.
A Case of Conscience
Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez, a Jesuit biologist on a commission to the planet Lithia, finds an alien race living in perfect reason and goodness without any God, and decides it must be the Devil's work.
The Lathe of Heaven
A man in a near-future Portland discovers he can reshape reality through his dreams, and a psychiatrist tries to exploit the power to fix the world.
Rendezvous with Rama
A massive, empty alien spacecraft enters the solar system, and a crew of explorers boards it to discover its purpose.
The Fountains of Paradise
An engineer's lifelong dream to build a space elevator becomes a meditation on human ambition and the reach of civilisation.
I, Robot
Nine stories chart the evolution of intelligent robots and the Three Laws designed to keep them safe, laws that prove more slippery than anyone intended.
Blindsight
First contact with an alien species so incomprehensible that the crew sent to meet them questions whether consciousness itself is an evolutionary dead end.
Foundation
As the Galactic Empire decays, mathematician Hari Seldon plants a colony of scholars on a remote planet to shorten the coming dark age, and his successors survive crisis after crisis his equations foresaw.