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It's really the humanity of the books that gets me. Division by Zero is one of his pieces that I find myself thinking about all the time for that very reason. I
by goostavos 7y ago
It's really the humanity of the books that gets me. Division by Zero is one of his pieces that I find myself thinking about all the time for that very reason. It just captures this somberness about how relationships can grow and change and sometimes end.
I do now have a Ted Chiang shaped hole in my life after finishing his collections. I just haven't found another author that really gets into the heart of what sci-fi can be.
- sooheon 7y agoTry Greg Egan's Axiomatic. I picked it up from a free books charity knowing nothing about it, and found the author to be a little "harder" than Chiang but with the same focus on the humanity to be found in sci-fi.
- p1esk 7y agoMichael Crichton is very good too, and of course Ray Bradbury.
- davidivadavid 7y agoFor a taste, make sure to check out Closer, available here: http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer
- ajot 7y agoYou could try reading something from Jorge Luis Borges. It may not be as sci-fi-y, generally more in the atmosphere of "Tower of Babylon", but great in its treatment of human nature and its relationship with universe.
- nyolfen 7y agoseconding, i found borges through a recommendation after reading chiang and he (borges) became my favorite author
- velavar 7y agoSome of Ken Liu's stories in The Paper Menagerie filled that gap for me. They are fabulous in their own right, though, maybe a lot more "dream"-like.