{"id":3,"date":"2020-03-21T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T09:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/?p=3"},"modified":"2020-03-21T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T09:39:04","slug":"a-short-story-and-a-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/2020\/03\/21\/a-short-story-and-a-film\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Story and a Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we are self distancing, here's some distraction. Read Ted Chiang's \"Story of Your Life\" (1998) and then watch Denis Villeneuve's\u00a0<i>Arrival<\/i>, a film from 2016, based on Chiang's story.<br \/>\nTed Chiang's \"Story of Your Life\" is a science fiction novella, and you can find it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/~raimu\/rnd\/ted-chiang-story-of-your-life-2000.pdf\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Chiang's soulful story is about aliens, variational principles of physics and free will.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer.<br \/>\nDenis Villeneuve (born 1968) is a French Canadian film director, writer and producer.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the trailer of <em>Arrival<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tFMo3UJ4B4g\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And some interesting, relevant articles:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/persons-of-interest\/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/persons-of-interest\/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2016\/nov\/10\/arrival-review-amy-adams-jeremy-renner-science-fiction\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2016\/nov\/10\/arrival-review-amy-adams-jeremy-renner-science-fiction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we are self distancing, here&#8217;s some distraction. Read Ted Chiang&#8217;s &#8220;Story of Your Life&#8221; (1998) and then watch Denis Villeneuve&#8217;s\u00a0Arrival, a film from 2016, based on Chiang&#8217;s story. Ted Chiang&#8217;s &#8220;Story of Your Life&#8221; is a science fiction novella,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,3,4],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-chiang","tag-fiction","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/ddara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}