In their first exchange in the film, the physicist is bemused by the linguist’s assertion that “language is the cornerstone of civilization” (00:16:20), the position he accords scientific discourse. Both texts establish tension through the misgivings with which the protagonist, linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams), and her soon-to-be spouse, theoretical astrophysicist Gary Donnelly (renamed Ian in Arrival ) regard the other’s ability to establish meaningful dialogue with the aliens. Predicated on a first-contact scenario with a race of space-faring beings, Ted Chiang’s science fiction novella The Story of Your Life (1998, 2016) and Denis Villeneuve’s feature film adaptation Arrival (2016) organize conflict around the theme of communication. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.ĭouglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (217)
“There is no Time”: Parsing the Future Perfect in Ted Chiang’s The Story of Your Life and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival Gregory Brophy and Shawn Malley × Current About Archive Submit Editorial Board Salisbury University
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