Fun fact: it got made into the film Arrival.

  • steeznson@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s amazing that he wrote these stories over decades, publishing them one at a time in sci-fi periodicals as an “amateur”. All the while he had a day job as a Technical Writer.

    • TwinTusks@bitforged.space
      2·
      7 months ago

      Many writer wrote short stories in periodicals while working on another job before they made it big.

      Stephen King published many short stories while working in a laundromat and later as a teacher early in his career.