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Small Beer Press www.lcrw.net Copyright ©2002 by Ted Chiang First published in 2002, 2002 NOTICE: This work is copyrighted. It is licensed only for use by the original purchaser. Making copies of this work or distributing it to any unauthorized person by any means, including without limit email, floppy disk, file transfer, paper print out, or any other method constitutes a violation of International copyright law and subjects the violator to severe fines or imprisonment.
CONTENTS Tower of Babylon Understand Division by Zero Story of Your Life Seventy-Two Letters The Evolution of Human Science Hell is the Absence of God Liking What You See: A Documentary Story Notes Acknowledgements Publication History Praise for Ted Chiang's stories: * * * *
Page 4 and 5: Stories of Your Life and Others Ted
Page 6 and 7: Tower of Babylon Were the tower to
Page 8 and 9: "Not as they do. They cut granite."
Page 10 and 11: is floated down the Euphrates." "Yo
Page 12 and 13: we reach the top of the tower, we w
Page 14 and 15: "They have soil spread on them, so
Page 16 and 17: edge to edge in a day's time. Durin
Page 18 and 19: away by the wind. Here at the summi
Page 20 and 21: They first chipped away stone to cu
Page 22 and 23: "There are no others,” answered H
Page 24 and 25: Hillalum squinted at the sandy land
Page 26 and 27: Understand A layer of ice; it feels
Page 28 and 29: tests you scored in the ninety-nint
Page 30 and 31: Suddenly he's got my attention; fin
Page 32 and 33: an engine; in each case, everything
Page 34 and 35: surprised at my speed. "That's very
Page 36 and 37: A moment of surprise, but no more t
Page 38 and 39: * * * * As my mind develops, so doe
Page 40 and 41: went back to her apartment. Having
Page 42 and 43: The printed page is too clumsy and
Page 44 and 45: my discretion; the higher-level asp
Page 46 and 47: I can even induce a self-sustaining
Page 48 and 49: I pick a city at random: Memphis. I
Page 50 and 51: True, acting cooperatively would pr
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is unmistakable. And then it stops.
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"I make no claims of being a saint.
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Division by Zero 1 Dividing a numbe
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Carl watched Renee from the doorway
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"I doubt it: this calls for a fresh
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Carl didn't believe that such anxie
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Carl tried a different approach.
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Renee exhaled and turned away to th
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Carl had offered comfort in similar
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Story of Your Life Your father is a
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"Not really. It doesn't sound like
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own grass in front of the looking g
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eplied with [flutter2], “yes." "S
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"It sounds like a good idea to me.
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computer, displaying a written desc
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I remember a conversation we'll hav
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"Hold on a second. Why use two lang
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us previously devised systems for c
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started erasing my blackboard. "Don
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physics primer. “You can be sure
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"Well, that development was a shock
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commandment to a light beam: ‘Tho
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expressed with my internal voice; i
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from past to future. In contrast, t
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It was a gourmet market, not large,
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Looking at a sentence like this one
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language to actualize. Sure, heptap
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It's a period encompassing the rest
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I remember what it'll be like watch
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Seventy-Two Letters When he was a c
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laboratory, which he used to conduc
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The nascent science of thermodynami
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"Do you have names that can learn o
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"You'll find it difficult to work w
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"It is an admirable goal,” he sai
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table in the row and indicated the
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Stratton imagined the consequences.
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slide beneath the microscope; the k
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hand's dexterity is the physical ma
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The next time he saw Lord Fieldhurs
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in the vast majority the resulting
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"I've heard that you have achieved
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Stratton sighed. * * * * Peering th
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mentality of the lower classes." "B
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"I feel confident that Milburn does
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entered, and closed the door behind
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The pain was shocking, so intense t
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since automata couldn't speak. An a
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The Evolution of Human Science It h
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Hell is the Absence of God This is
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age that boiled inside of them. All
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lessing, and she was humbly gratefu
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he was walking toward his car in th
Page 158 and 159:
Sarah had been the first woman Neil
Page 160 and 161:
Submit yourself completely and utte
Page 162 and 163:
able to face what awaited them, whe
Page 164 and 165:
having received a blessing, deemed
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It was then, while Neil was transfi
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mortal plane, but he doesn't do thi
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* * * * Joseph Weingartner, neurolo
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school. * * * * Rachel Lyons: Tamer
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never occur naturally. And when you
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maturity” you hear people talking
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with an unnatural intensity. That's
Page 180 and 181:
make themselves feel better. And th
Page 182 and 183:
with calli, she wasn't so hard to t
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* * * * Daniel Taglia, professor of
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to distinguish models of cars, if y
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was like they were trying to arouse
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in such situations. Of course, I'd
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* * * * Maria deSouza: Of course it
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I know how this is going to sound,
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"Division by Zero" There's a famous
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* * * * "Hell is the Absence of God
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Acknowledgements Thanks to Michelle
Page 202 and 203:
Ted Chiang was born in Port Jeffers
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much longer, readers’ heads might
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Vincent McCaffrey, Hound: A Novel B
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