I won’t say more than that here, since its the shortest story in the book and anything else will be a spoiler What’s expected of us: I didn’t like this story because the premise of this story is something that I just can’t deal with, if its really true.Be present and marvel at the miracle of existence instead of trying to find answers in your past Exhalation: This story was about trying to find out a way to get access to our oldest memories.But my takeaway was that if you do get to visit your past, learn by being an observer instead of trying to change things. This wasn’t one of my favorite stories of the collection though. But the premise is that time is considered as a constant here and as a traveller you can visit your past and your future, but you cant change any of the events that have already occurred. The description of the gate was beautifully done. The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate: This story is based on time travel via a gate.Here is my breakdown on all the stories that are featured in this collection: I gave this book a five star too and highly recommend it, if you’re into science fiction and short stories. Now I really want to read his first anthology as well. Once I read it, I realised why this book is so popular. Ted Chiang’s Exhalation is featured on the top sci-fi must reads for this year.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |