![]() ![]() If you’re interested in purchasing the book, you can click on the cover image to follow an Amazon affiliate link to the book and thanks for supporting my blog!Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Reading challenges fulfilled: none since this was a novella Do all of your selves across the multiverse make the same choice in the same situation? If they don’t, what does that say about you? One of the characters was a therapist who provided a few stories that went in both directions – people who acted the same across the multiverse and people who reacted differently. However, the theme of the story was free will. The plot was about getting and selling the specific prism. He just needs to convince the owner to sell it to him so he can make some money off of it.įinal thoughts: An interesting premise to a story. Morrow, one of Nat’s colleagues, finds one like that. And 'Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom' would be just another 'What if you. Chiang is, among other things, a short story specialist. In Exhalation, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions. And to read Ted Chiang is to do both at the same time. ![]() ![]() The trick is to find a prism that connects a universe different enough from your own to make it worth it to talk to it. Also included are two brand-new stories: Omphalos and Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom. Prisms are quantum entangled devices that allow people to talk to another universe. Summary: Nat works for a company that buys prisms. This is another novella nominated for a Hugo this year. ![]()
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