Short Stories
Stories of Your Life and Others
2002·317 pages
Ted Chiang's stories twist reality with profound questions, exploring the depths of science, faith, and human perception.
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Ted Chiang's stories twist reality with profound questions, exploring the depths of science, faith, and human perception.
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Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF.
Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer's stories so far--plus an ...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Minor references to reproduction and biology in one story involving golems; no explicit scenes.
Violence & gore
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Depictions of sinners falling into fiery pits; themes of impending doom and isolation; some body horror in superintelligence pursuit.
Profanity
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No profanity present.
Substance use
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No substance use depicted.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation.
Religious content
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Central themes in multiple stories: literal fundamentalist Christianity with visible hell; man's relationship to God in tower-building; conflicts between faith and science.
Magic & witchcraft
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One story features naming rituals to animate golems, blending occult-like magic with science; references to preformation and creative language power.
Occult / demonology
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Occult elements present as part of the fantasy magic system.
Political content
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Explores ethics of human enhancement, eugenics, societal impacts of technology, and rationalism versus religion; themes of humanism and progress.
Self-harm / suicide
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Suicide themes in 'Division by Zero' with emotional crisis from shattered beliefs; ideation and mental breakdown depicted.
Abuse & suffering
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Themes of suffering from divine judgment, including visible damnation; systemic inequality in beauty perception and human enhancement.
Other
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