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A story by this author describes “a legion of Bartleby the Scriveners” who no longer act spontaneously because of a device called the “Predictor” that always flashes a light a second [emphasize] (10[1])before (10[3])you press (10[1])a button. The narrator of a story by this author is shocked to find himself in Shinar after tunneling through what he thought was (10[1])the vault of (10[1])heaven. A story by this author (10[2])includes diagrams of an (10[1])air-water boundary to illustrate the principle of least (-5[1])time. Hillalum travels with a caravan up the title (10[1])structure and learns that the universe is shaped like a seal cylinder in this author’s “The Tower of Babylon.” (10[1])This author explored (-5[1])the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis in a story in which Louise Banks (10[1]-5[1])works (10[1])with the aliens (-5[1])Flapper (10[1])and Raspberry to learn the language Heptapod B. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[2])name this Chinese-American science fiction author of (10[1])“Story of Your Life.” (10[2])■END■ (10[2])

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