A great collection of science fiction short stories by Ted Chiang. I particularly liked “Understand” which is about a man who takes an experimental drug and gets exponentially smarter, and “Tower of Babylon” in which he describes the building process of the Tower of Babylon and the consequences after the project goal is reached.

I would rank the stories in the following descending order:

• Understand
• Tower Of Babylon
• The Evolution of Human Science
• Liking What You See: A Documentary
• Story of Your Life
• Hell Is the Absence of God
• Division by Zero
• Seventy-Two Letters