This is a story seeped in science fiction, yet the reader does not feel alienated at any point since the author has refrained from using overtly technical terms.
One element of Ted Chiang’s writing that stands out is how adept he is at infusing hard science with simple story-telling. The two super-beings meet in adversity as they stand on opposite side of spectrum in regards to their motivations and what they hope to achieve through this immense brain power. Later on in the story Leon meets Reynolds, another human with super-intelligence who had been injected with the drug. As he gets more cerebral he becomes a target for government agencies and has to thwart their plans of capturing him. The drug regenerates his neural network resulting in advanced intelligence on all levels of cognition, sensory and motor skills. Leon Greco, the protagonist, is injected with an experimental drug of hormone K to heal brain damage incurred by an accident. “Understand” is another short from Ted Chiang’s “Stories of Your Life and Others”.
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