Ted Chiang | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Port Jefferson, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Fiction writer, technical writer |
Education | Brown University (BS) |
Period | 1990–present |
Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
Notable works | ‟Tower of Babylon” (1990) ‟Story of Your Life” (1998) ‟The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate” (2007) Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) Exhalation: Stories (2019) ‟Hell is the Absence of God” (2001) |
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Traditional Chinese | 姜峯楠 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 姜峰楠 | ||||||||||
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Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards.[1] He has published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) and Exhalation: Stories (2019). His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). He was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame in 2020–2021.[2] Chiang is also a frequent non-fiction contributor to the New Yorker Magazine, most recently on topics related to computer technology, such as artificial intelligence.