Summary (From the publisher):

Original title: Story of Your Life
Original languages: English

Quotes:

Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Alien Beings→ Alien Societies

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection, the (1999) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Tanith Lee , Bruce Sterling , Stephen Baxter , Greg Egan , Paul J. McAuley , Robert Reed , Michael Swanwick , Robert Charles Wilson , Howard Waldrop , Ian McDonald , Tony Daniel , William Barton , Jim Grimsley , William Browning Spencer , Rob Chilson , Ian R. MacLeod , Liz Williams , Gwyneth Jones , Cherry Wilder , Ted Chiang , Geoffrey A. Landis , Cory Doctorow , Chris Lawson
     Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) [Collection]
      Author: Ted Chiang
     Hive of Dreams (2003) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , William Gibson , Neal Stephenson , Octavia E. Butler , Douglas Coupland , Greg Bear , John Varley , Richard Powers , Joanna Russ , Michael Coney , Molly Gloss , Ted Chiang
     Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , William Gibson , Greg Bear , Bruce Sterling , Lucius Shepard , Stephen Baxter , Pat Cadigan , Greg Egan , Joe Haldeman , Nancy Kress , Paul J. McAuley , Mike Resnick , Robert Reed , Robert Silverberg , Michael Swanwick , Brian M. Stableford , Walter Jon Williams , John Kessel , Howard Waldrop , Gene Wolfe , Connie Willis , Ian McDonald , Tony Daniel , James Patrick Kelly , Steven Utley , John Crowley , William Sanders , Geoff Ryman , Charles Stross , Eileen Gunn , Terry Bisson , Ian R. MacLeod , Maureen F. McHugh , Molly Gloss , Ted Chiang , David Marusek