Ted Chiang
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 Ted Chiang at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention |
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| Born | 1967 |
| Occupation | Writer, technical writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Writing period | 1990—Present |
| Notable work(s) | "Tower of Babylon" (1990) "Story of Your Life" (1998) Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) |
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.
Although not a prolific author, having published only 11 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" (2000), a Nebula Award, Locus Award and Hugo Award for his novelette "Hell Is the Absence of God" (2002) - and most recently, a Nebula and Hugo Award for his novelette "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007).
Chiang turned down a Hugo nomination for his short story "Liking What You See: A Documentary" in 2003, on the grounds that the story was rushed due to editorial pressure and did not turn out as he had really wanted [1].
Chiang's first eight stories are collected in Stories of Your Life, and Others (1st US hardcover ed: ISBN 0-7653-0418-X; 1st US paperback ed.: ISBN 0-7653-0419-8). His novellette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate was also published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
In a recent interview (May 19, 2008) [2], Chiang mentioned that he is currently writing a couple of new stories, with one being a novella that explores the theme of artificial intelligence.
[edit] List of works
- "Tower of Babylon" (Omni, 1990) (Nebula Award winner)
- "Division by Zero" (Full Spectrum 3, 1991)
- "Understand" (Asimov's, 1991)
- "Story of Your Life" (Starlight 2, 1998) (Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner)
- "The Evolution of Human Science" (a.k.a. "Catching Crumbs from the Table") (Nature, 2000)
- "Seventy-Two Letters" (Vanishing Acts, 2000) (Sidewise Award winner)]
- "Hell Is the Absence of God" (Starlight 3, 2001) (Hugo Award, Locus Award and Nebula Award winner)
- "Liking What You See: A Documentary" (Stories of Your Life and Others, 2002)
- Stories of Your Life and Others (Tor, 2002) (Locus Award for Best Collection)
- "What's Expected Of Us" (Nature, 2006)
- The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (Subterranean Press, 2007) (Nebula Award winner, Hugo Award winner)
- "Exhalation" (Eclipse 2)
[edit] External links
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Ted Chiang |
- Ted Chiang: Science, Language, and Magic Interview in the August 2002 issue of Locus Magazine
- Interview conducted by StarshipSofa.com
- Interview conducted by Rani Graff.
- Interview conducted by Lou Anders.
- Interview conducted by Gavin J. Grant.
- Ted Chiang at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Ted Chiang's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
- hidenori watanave's illustrations for Ted Chiang (Hayakawa S-F magazine)
