Reception Ĭritic John Clute has written that Chiang's work has a 'tight-hewn and lucid style. Ĭhiang has published eighteen short stories, novelettes, and novellas as of 2019. Chiang was an instructor at the Clarion Workshop at UC San Diego in 20. His later stories have won numerous other awards, making him one of the most-honored writers in contemporary Science fiction.Īs of July 2002, he was working as a technical writer in the software industry and resided in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle. After attending the Clarion Workshop in 1989 he sold his first story, 'The Tower of Babylon', to Omni magazine, and was awarded a Nebula Award for it in 1990. Ĭhiang graduated from Brown University with a computer science degree.Ĭhiang began submitting stories to magazines in high school. His father, Fu-pen Chiang, is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Stony Brook University. Both of his parents were born in Mainland China and immigrated to Taiwan with their families during the Chinese Communist Revolution before immigrating to the United States. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan ( 姜峯楠). Ted Chiang was born in 1967 in Port Jefferson, New York. Chiang is also a frequent non-fiction contributor to the New Yorker Magazine, most recently on topics related to computer technology, such as artificial intelligence.Įarly life, family and education He was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame in 2020–2021.

His short story ' Story of Your Life' was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards.

His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (2007)

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