Ted Chiang

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name = Ted Chiang


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birthdate = 1967
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occupation = Writer, technical writer
nationality = American
notableworks = "Tower of Babylon" (1990)
"Story of Your Life" (1998)
"Stories of Your Life and Others" (2002)
period = 1990—Present
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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.

Although not a prolific author, having published only 10 short stories as of 2008, 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 [http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/chiang/full/] .

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) [http://freesf.blogspot.com/2008/05/starship-sofa-interview-ted-chiang.html] , Chiang mentioned that he is currently writing a couple of new stories, with one being a novella that explores the theme of artificial intelligence.

List of works

* "Tower of Babylon" (Omni, 1990) (Nebula Award winner)
* " [http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/division/ Division by Zero] " ("Full Spectrum 3", 1991)
* " [http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm 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)
* " [http://web.archive.org/web/20010802144026/http://www.tor.com/72ltrs.html 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)
* " [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7047/full/436150a.html What's Expected Of Us] " ("Nature", 2006)
* "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" ("Subterranean Press", 2007) (Nebula Award winner, Hugo Award winner)

External links

* [http://freesf.blogspot.com/2008/05/starship-sofa-interview-ted-chiang.html Interview] conducted by StarshipSofa.com
* [http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/chiang/ Interview] conducted by Rani Graff.
* [http://www.sfsite.com/09b/tc136.htm Interview] conducted by Lou Anders.
* [http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/chiangted.jsp Interview] conducted by Gavin J. Grant.
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* [http://freesfonline.de/authors/chiang.html Ted Chiang's online fiction] at [http://freesfonline.de/ Free Speculative Fiction Online]
* [http://wtnv.jp/sfm hidenori watanave's illustrations for Ted Chiang (Hayakawa S-F magazine)]