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[RT][Repost]Everything by Ted Chiang
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Author: u/blazinghand Chaos Undivided*
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URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/2frknq/rtreposteverything_by_ted_chiang/
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Score: 17
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Created: 2014-09-08T00:49:21
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Ted Chiang is an author noteworthy for his excellent rational science fiction. I consider his work to be some of the most relevant to this subreddit. He pretty much exclusively writes short stories, and they're all amazing. Many of you will have read his work, but I feel like since it has been 6 months since the last "Everything by Ted Chiang" post, it's time for a new post to show our new readers some of the very best this genre has to offer.
The first work of his I read was Exhalation, the story of a scientist who isn't afraid to face the truth. I cried at the end, because the beauty of the story was too much for me. Read it first, and you will end up reading the rest of his work.
Many of his short stories are in a collection for sale on Amazon, or you can read them online. One short story, The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling is not in that collection, but is available online and generally considered an excellent rationalist work.
I highly recommend all of Ted Chiang's work. Thanks to /u/Tasty_Yogurt and /u/CalebJohnsn for finding links, and /u/embrodski for making the last version of this thread.
Comments:
u/Prezombie [+4] (4 hours later)
http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=30099
https://archive.org/search.php?query=ted%20chiang
These sites has a few podcasted audiobook versions of his works.
u/superliminaldude [+3] (17 hours later)
Now if only he'd write more than one story a year or, God forbid, a novel, but I guess that's what you pay for each story being utterly brilliant.
u/embrodski [+4] (18 hours later)
I had the good fortune to talk to him at a Denver lit con and asked him about that. He said that he has no intention of writing a novel. He feels the novelette/novella is exactly the right length for exploring the subjects he wants to explore, and stretching them into a novel would be a disservice to his readers and isn't in any way appealing to him.
Obviously nothing in life is certain, but it may be a long time if we ever do get a novel.
u/nhtrivedi [+2] (20 days later)
For anyone in the Atlanta area, he's coming to Georgia Tech for two days of events. http://p1.gatech.edu/