Attend a campus screening of this gripping science fiction film ahead of a discussion on Sept. 23 with Ted Chiang, whose short story inspired the film.
Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer, based on the 1998 short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. The film stars Amy Adams as Louise Banks, a linguist enlisted by the United States Army to discover how to communicate with extraterrestrials who have arrived on Earth, before tensions lead to war. Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, and Michael Stuhlbarg appear in supporting roles.
Attend the talk with Chiang Sept. 23!
Chiang's work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, six Locus awards, and the PEN Malamud Award. His novella 鈥淪tory of Your Life鈥 was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). His most recent short story collection, Exhalation (Knopf, 2019), was listed as one of the Top Ten Books of 2019 by The New York Times, and included in President Barack Obama鈥檚 2019 reading list. In 2023, he was named one of Time Magazine鈥檚 100 Most Influential People in AI.
