Hell Is the Absence of God

"Hell Is the Absence of God"
Short story by Ted Chiang
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Fantasy
Publication
Published inStarlight #3
Publication typeAnthology
PublisherTor Books
Publication dateJuly 2001

"Hell Is the Absence of God" is a 2001 fantasy novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in Starlight #3, and subsequently reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 2, and in Fantasy: The Best of 2001, as well as in Chiang's 2002 anthology, Stories of Your Life and Others.

"Hell Is the Absence of God" won the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and the Locus Award for Best Novelette. It was also a finalist for the 2002 Theodore Sturgeon Award. It has been translated into Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, German,[1] Ukrainian and Romanian.[2]

  1. ^ "Hell Is the Absence of God". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  2. ^ Împărțirea la zero, Nemira, 2011