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Ted Chiang
Chiang in Madrid, Spain, 2011
Chiang in Madrid, Spain, 2011
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Port Jefferson, New York
OccupationFiction writer, technical writer
NationalityAmerican
Period1990–present
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
SubjectSoftware
Notable worksTower of Babylon (1990)
Story of Your Life (1998)
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)

Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (姜峯楠).

Chiang's short fiction works have (as of 2013) won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, four Locus awards, and others.[2] Critic John Clute has praised Chiang's "tight-hewn and lucid" style and says Chiang's stories have "a magnetic effect on the reader."[3]

Biography

Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York.[4] He graduated from Brown University with a computer science degree and in 1989 graduated from the Clarion Writers Workshop. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle.[5]

Awards

Although not a prolific author, having published only 15 short stories, novelettes, and novellas as of 2015, Chiang had to that 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 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); a Nebula and Hugo Award for his novelette "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007); a British Science Fiction Association Award, a Locus Award, and the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Exhalation" (2009); a Hugo Award[6] and Locus Award for his novella "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" (2010).

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.[7]

In 2013, his collection of translated stories Die Hölle ist die Abwesenheit Gottes won the German Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best foreign science fiction.

Chiang's first eight stories are collected in Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)[8][9] His novelette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (2007) was also published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

"The Great Silence", Ted Chiang's latest story, was selected for inclusion in the prestigious The Best American Short Stories anthology for 2016, and a rare honor for stories and authors that fall under the science fiction, fantasy or horror genre umbrellas.

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References

  1. ^ http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2007/08/daniel-abraham-interview.html
  2. ^ Chiang's awards at ISFDB
  3. ^ Chiang's entry at SF Encyclopedia
  4. ^ "Ted Chiang – Summary Bibliography". The Internet Speculative Fction Database. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  5. ^ "An Interview with Ted Chiang". SF Site. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  6. ^ "2011 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners". Locus. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  7. ^ "Chiang". fantasticmetropolis.com.
  8. ^ Chiang, Ted. Stories of Your Life and Others (1st US hardcover ed.). Tor. ISBN 0-7653-0418-X.
  9. ^ "Ted Chiang". Indie Bound. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  10. ^ Chiang, Ted (7 July 2005). "What's Expected Of Us". Nature. 436 (7047): 150. doi:10.1038/436150a. (available online)- Paid subscription required.)
  11. ^ "Jeremy Renner Joins Amy Adams in Sci-Fi 'Story of Your Life'". The Hollywood Reporter. 6 March 2015.
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