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Ted Chiang at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention

Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Sciences degree, and has attended Clarion. Today he resides in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington.

He has won Nebula Awards for his short stories "Story of Your Life" (1999) and "Tower of Babylon" (1990), and both a Nebula and a Hugo Award for his novellette "Hell Is the Absence of God" (2001). He turned down a Hugo nomination for "Liking What You See: A Documentary". His story "Seventy-Two Letters" received the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

List of works

• "Tower of Babylon" (Nebula Award winner)
• "Division by Zero"
• "Understand"
• "Story of Your Life" (Nebula Award winner)
• "The Evolution of Human Science" (a.k.a. "Catching Crumbs from the Table")
• "Seventy-Two Letters" (Sidewise Award winner)
• "Hell Is the Absence of God" (Hugo and Nebula Award winner)
• "Liking What You See: A Documentary"
• "What\'s Expected Of Us"
• The Merchant and the Alchemist\'s Gate

Chiang\'s first eight stories are collected in Stories of Your Life, and Others (1st US hardcover ed: ISBN 0-7653-0418-X; 1st US paperback ed.: ISBN 0-7653-0419-8).

External links

• Interview conducted by Rani Graff.
• Interview conducted by Lou Anders.
• Interview conducted by Gavin J. Grant.
• Ted Chiang at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Ted Chiang\'s online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
• hidenori watanave\'s illustrations for Ted Chiang (Hayakawa S-F magazine)

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