Story of Your Life is a 1998 Nebula-winning science fiction novella, later adapted as the film Arrival. Written by Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life takes a less than exciting idea – variational principles in physics – and transforms it into a moving story about a linguist encountering aliens, intimately woven around her own relationship with her daughter.
Thank you for this detailed analysis! Arrival is one of my favourite movies with amazing concepts and, in my opinion, the best sci-fi imagery to date.