Ted Chiang

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Ted Chiang : biography

1967 –

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

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 HugoLocus, (access date August 21, 2011) and the Locus Award for best novella.

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.

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). His novelette The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate was also published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

List of works

  • Tower of Babylon (Omni, 1990) (Nebula Award winner)
  • (Full Spectrum 3, 1991)
  • Understand (Asimov’s, 1991)
  • Story of Your Life (Starlight 2, 1998) (Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner)
  • The Evolution of Human Science (a.k.a. "Catching Crumbs from the Table") (Nature, 2000)
  • (Vanishing Acts, 2000) (Sidewise Award winner)
  • Hell Is the Absence of God (Starlight 3, 2001) (Hugo Award, Locus Award, and Nebula Award winner)
  • Liking What You See: A Documentary (Stories of Your Life and Others, 2002)
  • (Nature, 2006) (Paid subscription required.)
  • The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (Subterranean Press, 2007 and F&SF, 9/07) (Nebula Award and Hugo Award winner)
  • Exhalation (Eclipse 2, 2008) (BSFA, Locus Award, and Hugo Award winner)
  • (Subterranean Press, July 2010) (Locus Award and Hugo Award Winner)
  • Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities ed. by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer, June 2011)

Collections

  • Stories of Your Life and Others (Tor, 2002) (Locus Award for Best Collection)

Biography

Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York, 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).