The Best Science Fiction Books

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Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer, whose work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. He has published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) and Exhalation: Stories (2019). His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). He was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame from 2020 to 2021.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang

Ted Chiang

Books by Ted Chiang

The Lifecycle Of Software Objects

Exhalation

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Ted Chiang

Books by Ted Chiang

The Lifecycle Of Software Objects

Exhalation

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