Story of Your Life TED CHIANG Your father is about to ask me the question. This is the most important moment in our lives, and I want to pay attention, note every detail. Your dad and I have just come back from an evening out, dinner and a show; it's after midnight. We came ...
“Ted Chiang has no contemporary peers when it comes to the short story form. His name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Carver, Poe, Borges, and Kafka. Every story is a universe. Every story is a diamond. You will inhale Exhalation in a single, stunned sitting, because ...
Ted Chiang: As I describe in the story notes in the collection, I realized that both of these ideas have relevance to the notion of self-replication. The process by which one organism gives rise to another is one that we don’t fully understand even today; the complexities involved are tr...
“It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning” (New York Times 27 May 2019) — short story — 2nd place 2020: Exhalation (Knopf; Picador) — collection — winner 2014: “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” (Subterranean Fall 2013) — novelette — 2nd place 2011: The...
A focus on their understanding of the world is arguably necessary for the elaboration of the story ideas, however, and there's only so much that can be fitted into a short story. (I am not convinced that Chiang could produce a decent novel using the same approach.) The plots work ...
her new knowledge of their language and its nonlinear structure allows her to see future events and all the joy and pain they may bring. In each story of this incredible collection, with sharp intelligence and humor, Ted Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncert...
Ted Chiang is an American science-fiction writer known for his award-winning short stories, one of which was the basis of the film Arrival (2016).
Amy Adams in ArrivalAmy Adams playing a linguist trying to communicate in the film Arrival (2016), which was based on Ted Chiang's short story “Story of Your Life” (1998). With the publication of seven stories, Chiang felt he had enough material to put out a collection of his works....