{"id":3771,"date":"2016-09-20T02:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T02:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2016-09-20T02:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T02:36:46","slug":"ted-chiang-stories-of-your-life-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/ted-chiang-stories-of-your-life-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just finished Ted Chiang’s recent book of short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others<\/em>, which is really excellent, some of the best sci fi I’ve read this year. Quite a few of the stories express really fascinating philosophical thought experiments (but are still fully entertaining). Here’s one I liked a lot (readable in full at website): “Liking What You See: A Documentary<\/a>.” Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just finished Ted Chiang’s recent book of short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others, which is really excellent, some of the best sci fi I’ve read this year. Quite a few of the stories express really fascinating philosophical thought experiments (but are still fully entertaining). Here’s one I liked a lot (readable in full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-YP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}