4 Works in Abbot the Heptapod (Arrival 2016)
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After the disappearance of the shells, it rains everywhere in the world at once. Louise reflects on the nature of choices, and defines what she holds dear.
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Years after the Heptapods leave, Louise Banks begins dreaming of her daughter Hannah—alive again in a timeline that shouldn't exist. As a new alien threat, the Kash’maan, seeks to erase humanity’s memory of nonlinear time, Hannah begins to evolve, speaking a new Spiral Tongue that rewrites not just thought, but biology.
As the world fractures under competing languages, Hannah creates a glyph no species has ever seen—a language of invention, not fate. In doing so, she saves humanity not by remembering the future, but by choosing a new one.
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Abbot and Costello meet the humans for the first time. Comunication is key, but it doesn't look like the two legged creatures understand a single word...