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Story of Your Life

1998 novella by Ted Chiang
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Story of Your Life

Summary

Story of Your Life is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,562 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Story of Your Life authored Ted Chiang[3].
  • Story of Your Life received the Nebula Award for Best Novella[4].
  • Story of Your Life received the Theodore Sturgeon Award[5].
  • Story of Your Life received the Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story[6].
  • Story of Your Life's image is recorded as Ted Chiangs "Story of your life" illo.jpg[7].
  • Story of Your Life's instance of is recorded as literary work[8].
  • Story of Your Life's genre is recorded as science fiction[9].
  • Story of Your Life's Commons category is recorded as Story of Your Life[10].
  • Story of Your Life's language of work or name is recorded as English[11].
  • Story of Your Life's country of origin is recorded as United States[12].
  • Story of Your Life's publication date is recorded as +1998-11-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Story of Your Life's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cbmbc[14].
  • Story of Your Life's has edition or translation is recorded as Story of Your Life[15].
  • Story of Your Life's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 3363330[16].
  • Story of Your Life's ISFDB title ID is recorded as 84502[17].
  • Story of Your Life's nominated for is recorded as Hugo Award for Best Novella[18].
  • Story of Your Life's nominated for is recorded as Locus Award for Best Novella[19].
  • Story of Your Life's nominated for is recorded as HOMer Award for Novella[20].
  • Story of Your Life's nominated for is recorded as Otherwise Award[21].
  • Story of Your Life's published in is recorded as Starlight 2[22].
  • Story of Your Life's published in is recorded as Stories of Your Life and Others[23].
  • Story of Your Life's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Story of Your Life'}[24].
  • Story of Your Life's title is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Geschichte deines Lebens'}[25].
  • Story of Your Life's title is recorded as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'La historia de tu vida'}[26].
  • Story of Your Life's title is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'L’Histoire de ta vie'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Story of Your Life authored Ted Chiang[3].

Recognition

Awards received include Nebula Award for Best Novella[4], a literary award[28], in United States[29], founded in 1966[30]; Theodore Sturgeon Award[5], a literary award[31], in United States[32], founded in 1987[33]; and Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story[6], a literary award[34], in Japan[35].

Why It Matters

Story of Your Life ranks in the top 1% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,562 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

FAQs

What awards did Story of Your Life receive?

Honors received include Nebula Award for Best Novella[4], Theodore Sturgeon Award[5], and Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story[6].

Related Entities

Arrival literary work Ted Chiang United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [5] ↑ . sfadb.com. Retrieved . sfadb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [6] ↑ . sf-fan.gr.jp. sf-fan.gr.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . thehugoawards.org. thehugoawards.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . sfadb.com. sfadb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] ↑ . otherwiseaward.org. otherwiseaward.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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