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Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang is a Chinese-American science fiction author, best known for his short story "Stories of Your Life," which inspired the successful film "Arrival." This story earned him both a Nebula Award and a Theodore Sturgeon Award upon its release. He has penned many other short stories and novellas that have also received accolades, including the Nebula and Hugo Awards. Chiang's parents were both born in China, later immigrating to Taiwan and then to the United States, where Ted was born. He attended Brown University, graduating with a degree in computer science. Subsequently, he worked in the software industry as a technical writer while pursuing fiction writing on the side.

Ted Chiang became a published novelist in 1990 with the novel Tower of Babylon. Below is a list of Ted Chiang's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Tower of Babylon (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Understand (in Asimov's) (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Story of Your Life (in Stories of Your Life and Others) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Seventy-Two Letters (in Vanishing Acts) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hell Is the Absence of God (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Lifecycle of Software Objects (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Great Silence (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Omphalos (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Stories of Your Life and Others / Arrival (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Exhalation (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1991 (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Starlight 2 (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Year's Best SF 4 (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Vanishing Acts (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nebula Awards 35 (2001) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Starlight 3 (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
I premi Hugo 2002 (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Hard SF Renaissance (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Feeling Very Strange (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Twenty-First Annual Collection (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2016 (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lightspeed Magazine, July 2016 (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Edited By (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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