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Ted Chiang


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

Genre
Science Fiction

Influences
Chiang has said Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke inspired him when he ...more


Ted Chiang is an American science 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) and has been an instructor for it (2012, 2016). Chiang is also a frequent non-fiction contributor to the New Yorker, where he writes on topics related to computing such as artificial intelligence.

Chiang has published 18 short stories, to date, and most of them have won prestigious speculative fiction awards - including multiple Nebula Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, and British Science Fiction Association Award ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 292,658 ratings · 36,436 reviews · 116 distinct works • Similar authors
Stories of Your Life and Ot...
4.25 avg rating — 131,476 ratings — published 2002 — 128 editions
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Exhalation
4.27 avg rating — 117,002 ratings — published 2019 — 78 editions
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The Lifecycle of Software O...
3.91 avg rating — 7,714 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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The Merchant and the Alchem...
4.38 avg rating — 6,188 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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Tower of Babylon
4.09 avg rating — 4,076 ratings — published 1990
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Hell is the Absence of God
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4.03 avg rating — 2,891 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions
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Understand
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Story Of Your Life
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The Great Silence
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Exhalation
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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
tags: forgiveness, repentance
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“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, Exhalation
tags: behavior, belief, civilization, coma, decisions, free-will, lie, matter, reality, self-deception
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“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
tags: regret
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