Ted Chiang is a Chinese-American science ficiton writer. He is perhaps best known for his short story Stories of Your Life which became the hit film Arrival. That short story won both a Nebula Award and a Theodore Sturgeon Award after it’s release. He has written numerous other short stories and novellas that have been recognized for awards including the Nebula and Hugo Awards.

Both of Chiang’s parents were born in China. They immigrated to Taiwan and later the United States where Ted was born. Chiang then went to Brown University where he graduated with a computer science degree. He would work in the software industry as a technical writer while writing fiction on the side.

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Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Tower of Babylon(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Understand (in Asimov's)(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Story of Your Life (in Stories of Your Life and Others)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Seventy-Two Letters (in Vanishing Acts)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hell Is the Absence of God(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lifecycle of Software Objects(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Great Silence(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Omphalos(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Stories of Your Life and Others / Arrival(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Exhalation(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Year's Best SF Anthology Books

Year's Best SF (By: David G. Hartwell)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 2 (By: David G. Hartwell,Sheila Finch)(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 3 (By: Paul Levinson,David G. Hartwell,Michael Moorcock)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 4 (By: David G. Hartwell)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 5 (By: David G. Hartwell)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 6 (By: David G. Hartwell)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 7 (By: Terry Bisson,David G. Hartwell,James K. Morrow,Kathryn Cramer)(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 8 (By: Michael Swanwick,Terry Bisson,Ursula K. Le Guin,David G. Hartwell,Gene Wolfe,Charles Stross,Robert Sheckley,Michael Moorcock,Jack Williamson,Robert Reed,Paul Di Filippo,Nancy Kress,Greg Egan,Carol Emshwiller,Bruce Sterling,Geoffrey A. Landis,Charles Sheffield,Eleanor Arnason,J.R. Dunn,Kathryn Cramer,Ken Wharton,Richard Chwedyk,A.M. Dellamonica,Neal Asher,Robert Onopa)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 9 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 10 (By: David G. Hartwell,Brenda Cooper,Kathryn Cramer)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 11 (With: Greg Bear,Michael Swanwick,James Patrick Kelly,David G. Hartwell,Gardner Dozois,Liz Williams,Stephen Baxter,Daryl Gregory,Ken MacLeod,Peter F. Hamilton,Adam Roberts,Alastair Reynolds,Justina Robson,Gregory Benford,Bruce Sterling,Cory Doctorow,Joe Haldeman,Vonda N. McIntyre,Hannu Rajaniemi,Rudy Rucker,Tobias Buckell,Kathryn Cramer,Neal Asher,R. Garcia y Robertson,David Langford,Matthew Jarpe,Lauren McLaughlin,Larissa Lai,Oliver Morton,Bud Sparhawk,Alaya Dawn Johnson,Paul J. McAuley)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 12 (By: David G. Hartwell,Michael Flynn,Kathryn Cramer,Charlie Rosenkrantz)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 13 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 14 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 15 (By: David G. Hartwell,Chris Roberson,Kathryn Cramer)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 16 (By: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 17 (By: David G. Hartwell,Carolyn Ives Gilman,Kathryn Cramer)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 18 (By: David G. Hartwell,Elizabeth Bear,Sean McMullen)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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If You Like Ted Chiang Books, You’ll Love…

For a great collector of Chiang’s stories, check out Stories of Your Life and Others. This book features nine of Chiang’s classic tales, including the story mentioned in the title that became the basis for the hit film Arrival. Chiang’s stories are told with sharp intelligence and humor, and examine what it means to be alive in this world of beauty, wonder, and uncertainty. In addition to that story, it also includes Hell is the Absence of God. This is one of his most fantastical and imaginative stories that covers a world in which the existence of God and angels is obvious and known to all.

The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate is another one of Chiang’s classic stories. This book heads to medieval Baghdad where a poor man is brought before the most powerful man in the world to tell his story. The story includes many twists and turns, and dabbles in time travel with the ultimate message about the will of Allah and how it must be accepted, no matter what form it takes.

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