{"id":25432,"date":"2025-09-24T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25432"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:29:53","slug":"library-addition-ted-chiangs-story-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25432","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a new Ted Chiang limited edition from Subterranean:<\/p>\n

Chiang, Ted. Story of Your Life<\/b>. Subterranean Press, 2025. First edition hardback, #212 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued, in publisher’s resealable bag. Chiang’s Nebula-winning novella about attempts to communicate with aliens who don’t perceive time as linear, and the basis of the 2016 movie Arrival<\/b>. The number matches the number of my Subterranean edition of Exhalation<\/b>. I also own an inscribed first of Stories of Your Life<\/b>, his first short story collection, which contains this. Lots of people love this novella, but I don’t like it nearly as much as “Understand” or “Hell is the Absence of God” (also contained there). Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.<\/p>\n

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I will have cone copy of this available for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, which will probably be out late November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a new Ted Chiang limited edition from Subterranean: Chiang, Ted. Story of Your Life. Subterranean Press, 2025. First edition hardback, #212 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued, in publisher’s resealable bag. Chiang’s Nebula-winning novella about attempts to communicate with aliens who don’t perceive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":20,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,1397,1970,1491,794,718],"class_list":["post-25432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-limited-editions","tag-science-fiction","tag-signatures","tag-subterranean-press","tag-ted-chiang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25675,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25432\/revisions\/25675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}