Listen to our complete interview with Andrew Liptak, Carol Pinchefsky, and Christopher Cevasco in Episode 230 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “After this you kind of think he’s got to become the next Philip K. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley is thrilled that Hollywood has finally discovered Ted Chiang, and he hopes to see more of Chiang’s stories adapted in the future. “It’ll be something that’s so elegant and artistically done that sometimes I just have to sit back and marvel at it.” “I’ve actually had these moments where, as a writer myself, I’ll suddenly sit back and almost feel myself getting choked up just being so in awe of how he’s managed to accomplish something he’s been able to accomplish in a story,” Cevasco says. Writer and editor Christopher Cevasco is one of Chiang’s many admirers. His writing process is famously slow and painstaking, resulting in an output of less than one piece of short fiction per year, but everything he writes is of unusually high quality. In the science fiction world, Ted Chiang is one of the most widely admired authors working today. “I thought it was just such a poignant, heartbreaking story, and I wanted to see it brought to film, and it was translated so beautifully.” “I loved ‘Story of Your Life,'” she says. She gives much of the credit for that to its source material, the novella “Story of Your Life” by science fiction author Ted Chiang. Writer Carol Pinchefsky agrees that Arrival is exceptional.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |