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Ted Chiang


Born
in Port Jefferson, New York, The United States
October 20, 1967

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Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan. He 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-Two Letters" (20
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Average rating: 4.22 · 204,008 ratings · 24,981 reviews · 110 distinct worksSimilar authors
Stories of Your Life and Ot...

4.26 avg rating — 91,514 ratings — published 2002 — 121 editions
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Exhalation

4.28 avg rating — 77,929 ratings — published 2019 — 68 editions
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The Lifecycle of Software O...

3.93 avg rating — 5,998 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
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The Merchant and the Alchem...

4.37 avg rating — 4,710 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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Tower of Babylon

4.10 avg rating — 2,694 ratings — published 1990
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Story of Your Life

4.46 avg rating — 1,993 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
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Hell is the Absence of God

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4.02 avg rating — 1,894 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
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Understand

4.17 avg rating — 1,621 ratings3 editions
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The Great Silence

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4.12 avg rating — 1,153 ratings — published 2015
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Exhalation

4.26 avg rating — 995 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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“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

“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”
Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

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