Hey everyone. Close your eyes and imagine something for me. Imagine your eyes are open. What you just

experienced is science fiction. Boo-ya. Today's book is many things. The basis for the movie

arrival, one of my all-time favorite

sci-fi works, and a book that sounds like the author ran out of time to come up with a title.

Okay, Ted, what's the name?

Stories of Your Life and Others.

It's by Ted Chang and Others.

But just Ted Chang, right?

Yeah.

And this is the bookpile.

I think it's so confusing because the main short story is called Story of Your Life,

and it's like he made it plural twice.

He changed it to stories of your life and others.

I'm Kellyn Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and someone who

experiences time as a circle all at once, so I really connected with these stories.

And I'm David Vance. Fun tip, if you make a prediction about the future and it's wrong,

just say, I wasn't wrong, I was early.

And millions of Twitter idiots will wisely nod their heads with you.

I love it when people do that because, one, now your predictions can just never be disproved.

And two, early is still wrong.

Like, if I say tomorrow will be the heat death of the universe and the next day I'm like,

I wasn't wrong.

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