Stories of Your Life and Others

Review
I'd say that despite my 3 star rating (obtained by averaging the individual ratings for each story), I didn't care too much for this collection as a whole. This is the first I've read by Ted Chiang and based on these stories, his writing just isn't for me. I likely won't read anything else by him.

This collection is heavy on the science and really heavy on religious concepts. The later being something I just have very little interest in reading about. The stories I liked best didn't focus on religion, or if they did it wasn't apparent to me.

That doesn't mean it's bad. Far from it. I doesn't mean his ideas are bad either. Just that they didn't click for me.

Well except one. I really enjoyed the title story “Story of your Life” quite a lot. A few of the others were good in some parts but not in others, and some were a slog to get through.

Ratings
- Tower of Babylon - 2.5 stars
- Understand - 3.5 stars
- Division by Zero - 2.5 stars
- Story of Your Life - 4.5 stars
- Seventy Two Letters - 3.5 Stars
- The Evolution of Human Science - no rating
- Hell is the Absence of God - 1 star
- Liking What You See - 3.5 stars