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The new film is based on a short story by Ted Chiang — a 49-year-old technical writer based in Seattle. "Fiction writing is very hard for me," he explains — and so Chiang takes his time.

All these science fiction authors were very attuned to the science that was going on around them and got really great ideas from all the weird discoveries that were being made.