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Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The divide between genre fiction and literary fiction is blurry at best, and sometimes the most arbitrary criteria are applied in deciding which section of the bookstore will serve as a novel's home. Despite the well-known adage, I’m convinced that some books are judged by their covers. Audrey Niffenegger's novel, The Time Traveler's Wife was kept off t…

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