* Ted Chiang - Collected Stories, Essays and Interviews (4 books, 27 papers)

TED CHIANG (b. 1967) is an American science fiction writer.  His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards.  He was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame in 2020–2021, and became a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute in 2022.  Chiang is also a frequent non-fiction contributor to The New Yorker, most recently on topics related to computer technology, such as artificial intelligence.

In 1989 he published his debut story, "Tower of Babylon", an extraordinary reimagining of the Tower of Babel myth that follows a group of Elamite miners hired to crack the Vault of Heaven.  His biggest breakthrough came in 2016, when "The Story of Your Life", originally published in 1998, was adapted into the acclaimed film Arrival.  The story centers on a linguist tasked with communicating with an ominous group of cephalopod-ish alien visitors.  And the accolades have not stopped accumulating.

Critic John Clute has written that Chiang's work has a "tight-hewn and lucid style... [which] has a magnetic effect on the reader".  Critic and poet Joyce Carol Oates wrote that Chiang explores "conventional tropes of science fiction in highly unconventional ways" in "teasing, tormenting, illuminating, thrilling" fashion, comparing him favorably to Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree Jr. and Jorge Luis Borges.  Former president Barack Obama praised Chiang's short story collection EXHALATION as the "best kind of science fiction."

Chiang has said that one of the reasons science fiction writing interests him is that it allows him to make philosophical questions "storyable".  He enjoys reading story notes by authors, and himself includes them with his short story collections.  His story notes, he said in a 2019 interview, "may not be the precise response to 'How did you get the idea?,' but it's a way to answer the reader if they knew what the best question to ask [about the story] was."


In addition to the following books, this torrent also includes more than two dozen uncollected stories, essays, and interviews:

== PUBLISHED STORIES ==

* Exhalation (Knopf, 2019) – ePUB
* Stories of Your Life and Others (Vintage, 2016) – ePUB

== OTHER EDITIONS ==

* Arrival [movie tie-in edition] (Vintage, 2016) – ePUB
* Tower of Babylon (Vintage Single, 2016) – ePUB

== UNCOLLECTED STORIES ==

* It's 2059, and the Rich Kids are Still Winning (2019) – ePUB

== ESSAYS & FOREWORDS ==

* Bad Character (New Yorker, 16 May 2016) – PDF
* Catching Crumbs from the Table (Nature, 1 June 2000) – PDF
* ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (2023) – PDF
* Foreword to 'The Art and Science of Arrival' [Lapointe] (2022) – PDF
* Foreword to 'The History of Science Fiction' [Dollo & Morissette-Phan] (2021) – PDF
* Frankenstein's Daughter by Maureen McHugh: An Appreciation (2005) – PDF
* Introduction to "Particle Theory" (Strange Horizons, October 2011) – PDF
* Is Air Mundane (Extrapolation, vol. 49.2, 2008) – PDF
* The Problem of the Traveling Salesman (2008) – ePUB
* Reasoning About the Body (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, 2010) – ePUB
* Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear (2017) – PDF
* The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (Subterranean, Fall 2013)
* What If Parents Loved Strangers’ Children As Much As Their Own (2017) – PDF
* What’s Expected of Us (Nature, 7 July 2005) – PDF
* Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter (2021) – PDF
* Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? (2023) – PDF

== INTERVIEWS ==

* A Conversation With Ted Chiang (2002) – PDF
* The Absence of God [interview] (Interzone, September 2002) – PDF
* An Interview with Ted Chiang (2019) – PDF
* Author Spotlight [interview] (Lightspeed, April 2014) – ePUB
* Author Spotlight [interview] (Lightspeed, December 2012) – ePUB
* Interview with Electric Literature (18 July 2016) – PDF
* Macrocosm in Miniature [interview] (Extraterritorial, Winter 2023) – PDF
* Stories of Ted Chiang’s Life and Others [interview] (2014) – PDF


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