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Podcast: Not Quite Great Books: a TV podcast
Episode: 75. The Hepta-Pod: Arrival and "Story of Your Life," with Desiree Weber and Sid Simpson
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Join us as we discuss the 1998 novella "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang and the 2016 film Arrival (dir. Denis Villeneuve) that is based on the novella. After a genre-defining consideration of sci fi and politics, we turn to the novella and film to consider their engagement with language, the impossibility of storytelling, tragedy, free will and determinism, causality, teleology, time, th...