stories of your life and others: ted chiang

2018

A limited-edition, small-press edition of award-winning author Ted Chiang's debut speculative fiction collection.

Commissioned by science fiction author Ted Chiang for the design of an oversized limited edition of his 2002 debut anthology Stories of Your Life and Others, published by Subterranean Press in April 2018. Chiang's short story, “Story of Your Life” (included in this volume) was successfully adapted into the Academy Award-winning 2016 film Arrival. 

Subterranean allowed for two colors for the interior, and a die cut dustjacket, that interacts with the cover stamping on the book cloth. The collage artworks pulled from imagery within each of the stories and then combined textual and symbolic elements supplied by Chiang. Overlapping moire patterns serve as a background field for the art, providing a unifying element throughout the book.

This edition comes in a limited numbered hardcover (with the die-cut jacket), edition of 300, and a lettered edition of 26 with two-color stamping on white cloth in a custom tray case.

Scope: book design, illustration