"Dividing a number by zero doesn't produce an infinitely large number as an answer."
As a huge fan of the movie, Arrival, I'd had the source short story on my must read list for quite a while now. I wasn't quite expecting the strange selection of tale's that Chiang provides here. Certainly when it kicks off with the biblical tale of the Tower of Babylon, I was perplexed as to the connection between the stories.
Once I'd got through them the connecting threads seemed to be about communication and understanding. While some stories are stronger than others, this remains and interesting read.
4 out of 5 alien languages take all the time in the world to decipher.
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