![]() ![]() ![]() Best known for “Story of Your Life,” which inspired Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-nominated Arrival, he has a relatively small body of work that trickles out slowly. Already a legend in the sci-fi world, Chiang has a visionary knack for turning scientific discoveries and technological innovations into broader diagnoses of the human condition. Ted Chiang's new book of short stories, Exhalation, is his first collection since 2002. It was nearly impossible to read, at least until now. Lifecycle became a holy relic for sci-fi readers, with copies surfacing rarely, sometimes for hundreds of dollars. The book won a Hugo award for best novella, then, nearly as soon as it came out, ran out of print. The Lifecycle of Software Objects told the story of two people raising primitive AIs-think Neopets, except with the temperaments of precocious children-and captured the ongoing debate around artificial intelligence in vividly human terms. In 2010, a small book lit up the world of science fiction, then disappeared.
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