Ted Chiang

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January 01, 1967 in Port Jefferson, New York, The United States

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Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American speculative fiction writer. He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington. He is a graduate of the noted Clarion Writers Workshop (1989).

Although not a prolific author, having published only eleven short stories as of 2009, Chiang has to date won a string of prestigious speculative fiction awards for his works: a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990), the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992, a Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for "Story of Your Life" (1998), a Sidewise Award for "Seventy-...more

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Books by Ted Chiang

Average rating: 4.17 · 3,377 ratings · 622 reviews · 30 distinct works

	Stories of Your Life and Others 4.42 avg rating — 1,372 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Lifecycle of Software Objects 3.88 avg rating — 601 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate 4.26 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Exhalation by Ted Chiang (Author), Tom Dheere (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.41 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hell is the Absence of God 4.27 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Understand by Ted Chiang, Rashan Stone (Narrator) 4.42 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Siedemdziesiąt dwie litery by Ted Chiang, Michał Jakuszewski (Translator), Jolanta Pers (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings	My rating:
	The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists by Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carrie Vaughn (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gavin J. Grant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelly Link (Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection by Gardner R. Dozois (Editor), Gwyneth Jones, Bruce Sterling 3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Ted Chiang

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

tags: forgiveness , repentance

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“Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.”
― Ted Chiang, Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series

8 people liked it

“Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.”
― Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

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