Ted Chiang is an American speculative 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).
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 Alchemist's 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.
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 novelette "The Merchant and the Alchemist's 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.
From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the heavens above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life; from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality... Chiang's rigorously imagined stories invite us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
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The stories are really interesting. Actually I hope that some of these ideas can be extended into full-length novels. Understand, Story of your life, Liking what you see a documentary and Hell is the absence of God are the stories I like the most, which are...
評分The stories are really interesting. Actually I hope that some of these ideas can be extended into full-length novels. Understand, Story of your life, Liking what you see a documentary and Hell is the absence of God are the stories I like the most, which are...
評分The stories are really interesting. Actually I hope that some of these ideas can be extended into full-length novels. Understand, Story of your life, Liking what you see a documentary and Hell is the absence of God are the stories I like the most, which are...
評分The stories are really interesting. Actually I hope that some of these ideas can be extended into full-length novels. Understand, Story of your life, Liking what you see a documentary and Hell is the absence of God are the stories I like the most, which are...
評分The stories are really interesting. Actually I hope that some of these ideas can be extended into full-length novels. Understand, Story of your life, Liking what you see a documentary and Hell is the absence of God are the stories I like the most, which are...
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沒有對科幻感的刻意追求,感覺是以美學價值為核心價值構建起來的故事,閱讀體驗極佳,彌漫著一種溫柔而飄渺的氣氛。選材範圍廣,且不拘一格,然對於期待硬核科幻的讀者來說可能有些confusing。the story of your life氛圍上優於電影版,後者的基調有點嚮死而生的涼薄;敘述上則略顯含糊瞭,兩者都可以看一看。20181011:看完瞭understand,原來以為是一個人智能不斷升級最後發現自己的思維是被高層智慧編寫的的故事,沒想到是一個把自己聰明死瞭的故事……仿佛一個普通用戶升級成root用戶之後 覺得現有係統無法滿足需求 於是reprogram瞭自己然後闖進瞭自己的係統後門 開啓自殺指令gg的全過程,荒誕又真實
評分點子是不錯,故事沒有想象中那麼完整……Division by Zero還挺像麥剋尤恩的
評分點子是不錯,故事沒有想象中那麼完整……Division by Zero還挺像麥剋尤恩的
評分鑒於我可能一時半會不能把一生的故事整本讀完,來單獨標記這一篇。很多精巧的設計電影裏很可惜沒能展現,短小精悍,越迴味越美妙。
評分點子是不錯,故事沒有想象中那麼完整……Division by Zero還挺像麥剋尤恩的
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