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Stories of Your Life and Others
Sci-Fi
A collection of cerebral short stories that treat ideas the way physics treats forces. Karpathy calls Chiang 'required reading' and singles out Understand, Story of Your Life, and Division by Zero as his personal favorites.
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“Required reading.”
Listed on Karpathy's personal science-fiction page, where he highlights Ted Chiang as required reading.
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“Drop everything and read [Understand]”
The page cites a Naval tweet recommending the collection.
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Flagged blue on Collison's bookshelf — substantially above average.
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“'Understand' is one of my favorite sci fi short stories”
From Elad Gil's widely-shared July 2018 X/Twitter thread of recommended science-fiction reads.
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“Chiang is the closest thing to a modern Jorge Luis Borges in melding high concepts with literature”
Five-star (★★★★★) review on Gwern's public book-review archive, his most-cited list of personal favorites.
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Listed on the 'favorite books' section of Friedman's personal Goodreads profile.
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6 SOURCEs- Andrej Karpathy's Books reading list
- twitter.com tweet
- Patrick Collison's Bookshelf reading list
- twitter.com tweet
- gwern.net reading list
- goodreads.com · 2970055 Nat Friedman profile
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