Ted Chiang

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Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang in Madrid, Spain, 2011.
Born 1967 (age 46–47)
Port Jefferson, New York
Occupation Writer, technical writer
Nationality American
Period 1990—Present
Notable work(s) "Tower of Babylon" (1990)
"Story of Your Life" (1998)
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)

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

Chiang's short fiction works have (as of 2013) won 4 Nebula awards, 3 Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, 3 Locus awards, and others. [1] Critic John Clute has praised Chiang's "tight-hewn and lucid" style, and says Chiang's stories have "a magnetic effect on the reader." [2]

Biography

Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York,[3] 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 (1989).[4]

Awards

Although not a prolific author, having published only thirteen short stories, novelettes and novellas as of 2012, Chiang has to 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 Memorial 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), and a British Science Fiction Association Award, a Locus Award, the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Exhalation" (2009). His 2010 story "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" won both the Hugo[5] and the Locus Award for best novella. In 2013, his collection of translated stories Die Hölle ist die Abwesenheit Gottes won the German Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis as best foreign fiction.

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.[6]

Chiang's first eight stories are collected in Stories of Your Life and Others (1st US hardcover ed: ISBN 0-7653-0418-X; 1st US paperback ed.: ISBN 0-7653-0419-8).[7] His novelette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate was also published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Ted Chiang at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention

List of works

Collections

References

  1. ↑ Chiang's awards at ISFDB
  2. ↑ Chiang's entry at SF Encyclopedia
  3. ↑ "Ted Chiang – Summary Bibliography". The Internet Speculative Fction Database. Retrieved October 4, 2012. 
  4. ↑ "An Interview with Ted Chiang". SF Site. Retrieved October 4, 2012. 
  5. ↑ Locus, 2011 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners (access date August 21, 2011)
  6. ↑ www.fantasticmetropolis.com
  7. ↑ "Ted Chiang". Indie Bound. Retrieved October 4, 2012. 
  8. ↑ Chiang, Ted (7 July 2005). "What's Expected Of Us". Nature 436 (7047): 150. doi:10.1038/436150a.  (Paid subscription required.)

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