Ted Chiang

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Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Sciences degree, and has attended Clarion. Today he resides in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington.

He has won Nebula Awards for his short stories "Story of Your Life" (1999) and "Tower of Babylon" (1990), and both a Nebula and a Hugo Award for his novellette "Hell Is the Absence of God" (2001). He turned down a Hugo nomination for "Liking What You See: A Documentary". His story "Seventy-Two Letters" received the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

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"Tower of Babylon" (Nebula Award winner)
"Division by Zero" [1]
"Understand" [2]
"Story of Your Life" (Nebula Award winner)
"The Evolution of Human Science" (a.k.a. "Catching Crumbs from the Table")
"Seventy-Two Letters" (Sidewise Award winner)
"Hell Is the Absence of God" (Hugo and Nebula Award winner)
"Liking What You See: A Documentary"
"What's Expected Of Us" [3]

All of Chiang's stories except the last 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).