Illustrations by Henry McCausland.

We’re pleased to present a letterpress edition of Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life, one of science fiction’s most famous, and beloved, novellas.

What would it mean to know the future? At one level we already know the most important aspect of the future, in that we know that we are mortal; moreover, we know that as long as we're alive, we will experience both happiness and heartbreak. This awareness of what lies ahead of us is an essential aspect of being human. But how much more would we want to know?

Is there a limit to the amount of detail we could apprehend before it becomes more than we can bear? In this celebrated novella, the basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture Arrival, a woman finds herself confronting these questions in a way she never could have expected.

All Editions of Story of Your Life Feature:

Text and Signature pages were printed by DWRI Letterpress;
Two color printing on the signature pages;
Six full-color illustrations offset printed on 80# Finch
Text has been printed on Mohawk Superfine 100# text with an eggshell finish

The slipcase has two color stamping in a light green and black, matching the colors of the stamping on the book. The book and slipcase are both bound in Verona cloth, in different shades of green. The front features one of the heptapod aliens, a detail from one of the interior art pieces by Henry McCausland. The back of the slipcase is stamped in light green foil with the various [flutters] of the aliens’ language.

Limited: 500 signed numbered hardcovers, in slipcase

Praise for the Ted Chiang:

“Chiang has mastered an extremely tricky type of SF story. He begins with a startling bit of oddity, then, as readers figure out what part of the familiar world has been twisted, they realize that it was just a small part of a much larger structure of marvelous, threatening strangeness.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Chiang writes seldom, but his almost unfathomably wonderful stories tick away with the precision of a Swiss watch—and explode in your awareness with shocking, devastating force.”

—Kirkus