As she learns their language, Louise begins to think like the aliens and is able to see her own future, deciding to embrace it even though it she knows it will result in the loss of her daughter.
Humans learned to experience things sequentially, with cause-and- effect meaning, while aliens see the present, past, and the future all at once. Linguist Louise Banks and physicist Gary Donnelly begin the process of understanding the aliens’ two-dimensional language and their concept of physics, which radically differs from humanity’s understanding of time and space. “Story of Your Life” (1998) is a novella about an alien visitation. Meanwhile, her husband Carl stops feeling empathy for her depression. As she loses faith in mathematics, she ceases to find meaning in life.
“Division by Zero” (1991) is about a mathematician, Renee, who discovers a mathematical formation that proves all science is inconsistent. He develops superhuman intelligence which he uses for self-serving purposes until he comes across another man like him, whose aim is to save the world. “Understanding” (1991) follows an ordinary man who has receives an experimental new drug to revive him from a vegetative state. The first story, “Tower of Babylon” (originally published in 1990), takes place in ancient Babylon and deals with the centuries-long building of a tower to reach the Seat of God within Heaven’s Vault. The edition of Stories of Your Life and Others used for this guide is an e-book by Vintage, published as a movie tie-in under the title Arrival in 2016.
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