Chiang Ted. Story of Your Life

TOR / Pan Macmillan Ltd., 1998, 320p, ISBN13: 9780312861841.Note: The above publication details are for Starlight 2, the anthology in which the novella Story of Your Life was first published. It was also published in Ted Chiang's 2002 collection of works Stories of Your Life and Others: TOR / Pan Macmillan Ltd., 2002, 336p, ISBN13: 9780765304186.
Also, the page counts and ISBNs are for the hardcover first editions of these books. The novella itself is 33 p.; I was unable to find a specific ISBN: for it.Story of Your Life is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in Starlight 2 in 1998, and in 2002 in Chiang's collection of short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others. Its major themes are language and determinism.Story of Your Life won the 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novella, as well as the 1999 Theodore Sturgeon Award. It was nominated for the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novella.A film adaptation of the story, Arrival, was conceived and adapted by Eric Heisserer. Titled and directed by Denis Villeneuve, it was released in 2016.SPOILERS below!:Story of Your Life is narrated by linguist Dr. Louise Banks on the day her daughter is conceived. Addressed to her daughter, the story alternates between recounting the past: the coming of the aliens and the deciphering of their language; and remembering the future: what will happen to her daughter as she grows up, and the daughter's untimely death.