Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the heavens above, to a world...
Exhalation is a 2008 science fiction short story by Ted Chiang. It is about a civilization of mechanical beings who make a startling discovery about the nature of their universe. The story won the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. It was also nominated for the 2009 British Science Fiction Association Awards, Short Fiction category One of the best Science Fiction stories ever
Knopf, 2019. — 368 p. In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien...
TOR / Pan Macmillan Ltd., 1998, 320p, ISBN13: 9780312861841. Note: The above publication details are for Starlight 2, the anthology in which the novella Story of Your Life was first published. It was also published in Ted Chiang's 2002 collection of works Stories of Your Life and Others: TOR / Pan Macmillan Ltd., 2002, 336p, ISBN13: 9780765304186. Also, the page counts and...
"Story of Your Life" is a science fiction short story by Ted Chiang, first published in Starlight 2 in 1998, and in 2002 in Chiang's collection of short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others. The major themes explored by this tale are language and determinism. "Story of Your Life" is narrated by linguist Dr. Louise Banks the day her daughter is conceived. Addressed to her...
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