Ted Chiang

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Ted Chiang at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention
Ted Chiang at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention

Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American speculative fiction writer. He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington.

Although not a prolific author, having published only 10 short stories as of 2008, Chiang has to date won a string of prestigious speculative fiction awards for his works: a Nebula Award for Tower of Babylon (1990), the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992, a Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Story of Your Life (1998), a Sidewise Award for Seventy-Two Letters (2000), a Nebula Award, Locus Award and Hugo Award for his novelette Hell Is the Absence of God (2002) -- and most recently, a Nebula Award for his novelette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (2007).

Chiang turned down a Hugo nomination for his short story Liking What You See: A Documentary in 2003, on the grounds that the story was rushed due to editorial pressure and did not turn out as he had really wanted [1].

In a recent interview (May 19, 2008) [2], Chiang mentioned that he is currently writing a couple of new stories, with one being a novella that explores the theme of artificial intelligence.


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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).

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