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Ted Chiang is the greatest living science fiction short story writer I'm aware of, and ranks highly on my all time list.
by Arainach 6mo ago
Ted Chiang is the greatest living science fiction short story writer I'm aware of, and ranks highly on my all time list.
- Darkphibre 6mo agoHis short story "Understand" is just... amazing. It wasn't until I discovered I was on the spectrum that I realized why it clicked so much. >.< I'm masking all the time, running conversational simulations to anticipate the societally-expected response to any given situation (and am high on the IQ spectrum). https://web.archive.org/web/20140527121332/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20140527121332/http://www.infini...
- jperoutek 6mo agoI second this. Exhalation for some reason really resonates with me.
- Froztnova 6mo agoExhalation is really excellent. It's not really sci-fi but I also really enjoyed The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate, and the one about the tower of babel, I forget the name at the moment.
- kaiokendev 6mo agoTower of Babylon it's brilliant
- riffraff 6mo agoI have only read a few stories by Ted Chiang, but I concur, they were all fantastic.
- jcul 6mo agoStory of your life is one of my favorite short stories.