Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting
Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoI wonder if Ted Chiang was inspired by Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting
Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoI wonder if Ted Chiang was inspired by Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
pauldrye@lemm.ee 1 week ago
He’s written some “Notes” on the story when it was printed in his first short story collection and said that it has the same theme but that he wasn’t inspired by it. The roots of it were Paul Linke’s play “Time Flies When You’re Alive” and the principle of least time in optics – if you treat light as a ray, it has to know its future destination in order to know the path with the shortest time it will take to get there (though not if it’s a wave). Then there’s a bunch of diagrams and discussions about the principle that will stretch your brain.