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Story of Your Life Lesson Plan

About the Author

Ted Chiang is an internationally acclaimed science fiction writer. He published his first story, "The Tower of Babylon," in Omni magazine in 1989. Since then, he has published seventeen short stories and novellas over the course of over 30 years. Despite his low literary output, his work has garnered enthusiastic and overwhelmingly positive critical reception. His work has won all the major awards in science fiction, including four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and four Locus awards. He is perhaps best known for the story "Story of Your Life," which was first published in 1998. In 2016, "Story of Your Life" was adapted into the film ...

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