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Taking Things Literally
Feb. 13th, 2007 11:22 pmDec 2006
Stories of your Life and Others - Ted Chiang - Tor, 2002
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Even if you are an SF aficionado, the chances are that you will not have heard of Ted Chiang. Which is odd, really, because he has been writing for over fifteen years and has won pretty much every prize going in the field including the Hugo - three times - and the Nebula. There are two reasons for this lack of recognition. One is that he is an incredibly slow writer - his entire published opus to date consists of this one book. The other is that he writes in that most difficult of fictional forms, the short story.
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Stories of your Life and Others - Ted Chiang - Tor, 2002
* * * * *
Even if you are an SF aficionado, the chances are that you will not have heard of Ted Chiang. Which is odd, really, because he has been writing for over fifteen years and has won pretty much every prize going in the field including the Hugo - three times - and the Nebula. There are two reasons for this lack of recognition. One is that he is an incredibly slow writer - his entire published opus to date consists of this one book. The other is that he writes in that most difficult of fictional forms, the short story.
( Read more... )