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Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and adapted by Eric Heisserer, who conceived the project as a spec script based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang.
"Story of Your Life" is narrated by linguist Dr. Louise Banks the day her daughter is conceived. Addressed to her daughter, the story alternates between recounting the past: the coming of the aliens and the deciphering of their language; and remembering the future: what will happen to her daughter as she grows up, and her daughter's untimely death.
It was reprinted in 2016 as Arrival to coincide with the adaptation of "Story of Your Life" as the film Arrival. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Chiang's second collection, Exhalation: Stories was released in 2019. [ 4 ]
While Martine Bertrand and Patrice Vermette are given credit for the creation of Heptapod B in Arrival, the language was a collaborative effort of the crew. Conceptualization began with screenwriter of the film, Eric Heisserer, who decided to base Heptapod B's circular script on the etchings in the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings.
Arrival (story collection) or Stories of Your Life and Others, 2016, by Ted Chiang The Arrival (graphic novel) , 2006, by Shaun Tan The Arrival (Applegate novel) , a 2000 Animorphs novel by K.A. Applegate
The Phoenix Files is a young adult science fiction adventure series written by Australian author Chris Morphew.The series consists of six books: Arrival, Contact, Mutation, Underground, Fallout and Doomsday, the latest being released in Australia on 1 June 2013. [1]
Ted Chiang was born in 1967 in Port Jefferson, New York, to a Taiwanese American family. [3] His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (姜峯楠; Jiāng Fēngnán). [4]Both of his parents were born in Mainland China and immigrated to Taiwan with their families during the Chinese Communist Revolution before immigrating to the United States. [5]
The Phoenix Files: Arrival is a Science fiction/young adult/adventure written by Australian author Chris Morphew. It was first released in Australia on 1 June 2009. In Arrival, 15-year-old Luke Hunter and his mother Emily move to Phoenix, a town no one has heard of with no cars, no phones and no internet. He soon discovers the Shackleton ...