Perhaps now he’s most known as the author of Story of Your Life, which was the basis for the movie Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve. With only a handful of short stories and novellas published, he has won four Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, four Locus Awards, John W. Beginning with his debut story The Tower of Babylon, he has won praise from the critics, love from the fans of science fiction, and a lot of awards. Ted Chiang is quite a unique author as his fiction has been with us since almost 30 years, but doesn’t publish much, and yet he’s one of the most beloved science fiction authors of our time. “He puts the science back in science fiction-brilliantly.Written by contributor Marcin Zwierzchowski

“The first must-read SF book of the year.” - Publishers Weekly (starred Review) “Chiang writes seldom, but his almost unfathomably wonderful stories tick away with the precision of a Swiss watch-and explode in your awareness with shocking, devastating force.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred Review) You won’t know SF if you don’t read Ted Chiang.” -Greg Bear

“Chiang derides lazy thinking, weasels it out of its hiding place, and leaves it cowering.” - Washington Post “Confirms that blending science and fine art at this length can produce touching works, tales as intimate as our own blood cells, with the structural strength of just-discovered industrial alloys.” - Seattle Times each of those stories is a goddamned jewel.” -Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing “United by a humane intelligence that speaks very directly to the reader, and makes us experience each story with immediacy and Chiang’s calm passion.” -China Mieville, The Guardian You must read him.' -Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble Now.' -Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves If you don't know his name, let's fix that.

'Ted Chiang is one of the best and smartest writers working today. but with the perfection of slow-growing crystal.” -Lev Grossman, Best of the Decade: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Techland “Meticulously pieced together, utterly thought through, Chiang’s stories emerge slowly. Every sentence is the perfect incision in the dissection of the idea at hand.” - The Guardian “Shines with a brutal, minimalist elegance. raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human.” - The New York Times “Blend absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space.

“Chiang writes with a gruff and ready heart that brings to mind George Saunders and Steven Millhauser, but he’s uncompromisingly cerebral.” - The New Yorker “A swell movie adaptation always sends me to the source material, so Arrival had me pick up Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others: lean, relentless, and incandescent.” -Colson Whitehead, GQ

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