His second collection Exhalation was chosen by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2019. His first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, has been translated into twenty-one languages, and the title story was the basis for the Oscar-nominated film Arrival starring Amy Adams.
Ted Chiang is the winner of more than two dozen prizes, including four Hugo, four Nebula, and six Locus awards, and has been reprinted in the anthology The Best American Short Stories. The high rating also likely has something to do with this being my first Ted Chiang short story. Chiang also revisits his 2019 book, Exhalation, nudging audiences to consider morally complex worlds with characters and dilemmas that (in the words of Joyce Carol Oates) will “linger in the memory the way riddles may linger - teasing, tormenting, illuminating, thrilling.” The New Yorker calls him “one of the most influential science-fiction writers of his generation”- with a collection of 27 major literary prizes and writings that are regularly studied in college philosophy classes, it’s not difficult to see why.Ĭhiang joins us at Town Hall for a peek into his craft with a talk that sheds light on how magic and imaginary science shape how we understand the real world. Ted Chiang explores our human curiosity about real and imaginary science, technology, and magic - and how they help us make sense of the world.Ī quiet luminary in the world of speculative fiction writing, Ted Chiang is known for bridging the gap between humanism and hard science with his short stories, novellas, and novelettes. Understand Ted Chiang 4.
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