Story of Your Life (Signed Limited Letterpress Edition)
Language: English
Published by Subterranean Press, 2025
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- New
Seller: Daemon Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.Daemon Books
AbeBooks seller since March 30, 2026
Condition: New
£ 175.77
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Hardcover bound in premium Verona cloth. Handbound in a sewn board binding. A stunning, fine-press presentation of Ted Chiang’s masterwork novella, which served as the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Arrival. Story of Your Life explores the profound psychological, emotional, and linguistic transformations of a linguist tasked with decoding an alien language, ultimately altering her perception of time, memory, and human mortality. This release marks Subterranean Press’s first-ever book printed via letterpress, making it a highly desirable cornerstone piece for speculative fiction collectors.
Seller Inventory # DB0014
- Title
- Story of Your Life (Signed Limited Letterpress Edition)
- Author
- Ted Chiang
- Publisher
- Subterranean Press
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1645242595
- ISBN 13
- 9781645242598
- Illustrator
- Henry McCausland
- Edition
- 1st Edition, Special Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 2.5 pounds
- Dimensions
- 9 inches width by 9 inches height by 2 inches depth
- Seller catalogs
- Sci-Fi, Signed
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.
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Daemon Books
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 30, 2026
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