Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)
by Ted Chiang

Arrival is the movie tie-in edition of the book previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others, one of the most award-winning science-fiction collections of all time. The movie opens wide on November 11, 2016 and stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker.

Ted Chiang has long been known as one of the most powerful science fiction writers working today. With Arrival, the movie adaptation of his much-lauded story “Story of Your Life,” hitting theatres nationwide this fall, it is safe to say that Ted and his work will be exposed to a much larger audience. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Arrival presents characters who must confront sudden change. The title story concerns the arrival of alien lifeforms on Planet Earth. When a linguist is brought in to help communicate with them and discern their intentions, her new knowledge of their language and its nonlinear structure helps her deal with the pangs of divorce and the death of her daughter. In “Understand,” also optioned for film, a young man has an amazing reaction to an experimental drug used to heal brain damage. In each story of this incredible collection, with sharp intelligence and humor, Ted Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by wonder.

“Ted Chiang is so exhilarating, so original, so stylish he just leaves you speechless. I always suggest a person read at least fifty-two books a year for proper mental functioning but if you only have time for one, be at peace: you found it.”—Junot Díaz