Ted Chiang - Arrival

First published by Picador 2015

This electronic edition published 2016 by Picador

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ISBN 978-1-5098-5117-1

Copyright © Ted Chiang 2002

Cover artwork © 2016 Xenolinguistics, LLC, all rights reserved

The right of Ted Chiang to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

The copyright acknowledgements here Copyright Acknowledgments ‘Tower of Babylon,’ copyright © 1990 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Omni . ‘Understand,’ copyright © 1991 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Asimov’s . ‘Division by Zero,’ copyright © 1991 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Full Spectrum 3 . ‘Story of Your Life,’ copyright © 1998 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Starlight 2 . ‘Seventy-Two Letters,’ copyright © 2000 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Vanishing Acts . ‘The Evolution of Human Science,’ copyright © 2000 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Nature under the title ‘Catching Crumbs from the Table.’ ‘Hell Is the Absence of God,’ copyright © 2001 by Ted Chiang; first appeared in Starlight 3 . constitute an extension of this copyright page.

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