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Didn't know this story was originally published in Nature. I read it in his excellent short story book Exhalation and loved it like I did many others in that co
by imwm 6y ago
Didn't know this story was originally published in Nature. I read it in his excellent short story book Exhalation and loved it like I did many others in that collection.
Chiang is like Kafka and Borges in that he writes plain prose that blows your mind.
- roywiggins 6y agoNature has a fiction section: https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures > Futures is a venue for very short stories or ‘vignettes’ of between 850 and 950 words. The subject is typically near-future, hard SF, although this can be interpreted liberally. http://blogs.nature.com/futureconditional/2015/04/19/how-to-write-for-nature-futures/ http://blogs.nature.com/futureconditional/2015/04/19/how-to-...