His stories extrapolate from first premises with the logic and rigor of a well-designed experiment but at the same time are deeply affecting, responsive to the complexities and variability of human life. His new collection, Exhalation: Stories, which reprints Chiang’s uncollected work to date along with two new stories, includes three of his recent award-winning fictions.Ĭhiang is a writer of precision and grace. To date, he has multiply received both major field awards - the Nebula, voted on by fellow writers the Hugo, voted on by the reading community - as well as a British Science Fiction Association Award, and he has been nominated for the World Fantasy and James Tiptree Jr. Recent acclaim for his work, then, comes as no surprise to those familiar with the genre, among whom Chiang is known as someone who publishes infrequently, but almost invariably receives awards for his work. Chiang is a virtuoso of short fiction, a medium that is well established within science fiction. SINCE THE TITLE STORY of Ted Chiang’s previous collection Stories of Your Life and Others (2002), “Story of Your Life” (1998), was adapted for Denis Villeneuve’s film Arrival (2016), Chiang’s work has become more widely known - long-overdue recognition for a writer who has cogently explored our changing technologies and their social consequences over the last 20 years.
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