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    Description

    This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary Exhalation, an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. And in The Lifecycle of Software Objects, a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living...  Read More

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    Ted Chiang

    Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan. 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-Two Letters (2000), a Nebula Award, Locus Award and Hugo Award for his novelette Hell Is the Absence of God (2002), a Nebula and Hugo Award for his novelette The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate (2007), and a British Science Fiction Association Award, a Locus Award, and the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Exhalation (2009).

    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]

    Chiangs 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 novelette The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate was also published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

    As of 2013, his short fiction has won four Nebula Awards, three Hugo Awards, the John W Campbell Award, three Locus Awards, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award. He has never written a novel but is one of the most decorated science fiction writers currently working.

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