#Story of your life and others movie#
: Which story from this collection do you think would work best in a visual medium, and would it be another feature movie? TV series? Short film?Ĭhiang: I really have no idea of what would make a good movie or TV series I - along with many others - would have said "Story of Your Life" was unfilmable, but it turned out it wasn't. As much as I would have loved to see them included, I think that was the right decision the film already asks a lot of its viewers, and trying to retain the physics would have been asking too much.
It's true that the film is missing a lot of the physics that's in the story they actually filmed a couple scenes of Jeremy Renner explaining physics, but decided not to use them. And we all know how often adaptations of written science fiction go badly wrong, so it's almost literally a miracle that "Arrival" turned out so well. While it differs from my story in significant ways, it captures the emotional core of the story, which is all I wanted from an adaptation. : Can you talk about seeing "Story of Your Life," from your previous collection, brought to screen as the alien first-contact story "Arrival"? What did you think?Ĭhiang: I was very happy with "Arrival" I think it works well both as a film on its own terms, and as an adaptation of my story. Another new story in the collection, "Omphalos," was inspired in part by thinking about the Copernican principle of cosmology. : What elements of astronomy and space science have inspired you most in your stories?Ĭhiang: My story "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" was inspired by Kip Thorne's work on applying time dilation to wormholes, which I found absolutely fascinating.
#Story of your life and others software#
I also have a friend who's a professor and is looking forward to having "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" back in print so she can put it on her syllabus. In terms of reprints, I've been told by some readers that they're most excited about the renewed availability of "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," because copies of the limited edition of that story usually go for over $100 online. Ted Chiang: There are two stories appearing in the collection for the first time, and I'm excited about that.
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