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Has anybody read Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang? (lemmus.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fun fact: it got made into the film Arrival.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's amazing that he wrote these stories over decades, publishing them one at a time in sci-fi periodicals as an "amateur". All the while he had a day job as a Technical Writer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Many writer wrote short stories in periodicals while working on another job before they made it big.

Stephen King published many short stories while working in a laundromat and later as a teacher early in his career.