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by voidifremoved 3364 days ago
Agreed, that is the standout. I enjoyed the one about not being able to see beauty, but I felt it didn't go anywhere.

Stories Of Your Life takes the central idea of Slaughterhouse-Five and dresses it up with physics. Its good, but its like a remix more than anything.

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Interesting way to see it. If anything, Chiang took all the humor out of Vonnegut's story, which made the ludicrous bearable by making us laugh as well as cry.