![]() Fantastic Science: The study of the power of names, or "nomenclature", is a legitimate science, routinely employed to manufacture Golems, and reproductive biology is based on preformationism (organisms develop from miniature versions of themselves).In the finale, he manages to escape a hired assassin by writing out the same nomenclature to get a larger golem to hold a door shut, saving himself. ![]() Call-Back: The story begins with the protagonist recounting his first toy golem that would march in a straight line, and how he could copy and edit the nomenclature inside it for different effects.He is not related to the 1970s kung-fu star, David Chiang. The film Arrival is based on his story "Story of Your Life." Among his works are the eight stories published as Stories of Your Life and Others and the novellette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate. ![]() ![]() Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American Speculative Fiction writer. ![]()
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