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Ted Chiang

(b.1967)

Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan.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. He is a graduate of the noted Clarion Writers Workshop.

Awards: PEN (2024), Hugo (2011), BSFA (2009), Nebula (2008) see all

Genres: Science Fiction

Collections

   Stories of Your Life (2002)
     aka Arrival
   Exhalation (2019)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Tower of Babylon (1990)
   The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (2007)
   The Lifecycle of Software Objects (2010)

Series contributed to

Electric Literature's Recommended Reading
The Great Silence (2016)

Books containing stories by Ted Chiang

Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021)
(Nebula Award Stories, book 55)
edited by
Catherynne M Valente

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (2021)
edited by
John Freeman

More books

Awards

	2024 PEN/Malamud Award
	2020 Locus Award for Best Novelette : Omphalos
	2020 Locus Award for Best Collection : Exhalation: Stories
	2011 Locus Award for Best Novella : The Lifecycle of Software Objects
	2011 Hugo Award for Best Novella : The Lifecycle of Software Objects
	2009 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : Exhalation: Stories
	2009 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction : Exhalation: Stories
	2008 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
	2008 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
	2003 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : Hell Is the Absence of God
	2003 Locus Award for Best Collection : Stories of Your Life: And Others
	2002 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : Hell Is the Absence of God
	2001 Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History : Seventy-Two Letters
	2000 Nebula Award for Best Novella : Story of Your Life
	1999 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award : Story of Your Life
	1991 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : Tower of Babylon

Award nominations

	2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Omphalos
	2020 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
	2020 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
	2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
	2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Omphalos
	2019 Ray Bradbury Prize (nominee) : Exhalation: Stories
	2019 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Exhalation: Stories
	2014 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
	2014 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
	2011 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Lifecycle of Software Objects
	2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
	2008 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
	2003 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Liking What You See: A Documentary
	2002 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Hell Is the Absence of God
	2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Seventy-Two Letters
	2001 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Seventy-Two Letters
	2001 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Seventy-Two Letters
	1999 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Story of Your Life
	1999 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Story of Your Life
	1992 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Understand
	1991 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Tower of Babylon

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