1. Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer.
17 Facts About Ted Chiang
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Ted Chiang's work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards.
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Ted Chiang has published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation: Stories.
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Ted Chiang was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame from 2020 to 2021.
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Ted Chiang was born in 1967 to a Taiwanese American family in Port Jefferson, New York.
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Ted Chiang's father, Fu-pen Chiang, is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Stony Brook University.
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Ted Chiang grew up in Long Island and, at age 15, began submitting science fiction stories to magazines.
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Ted Chiang was an instructor at the Clarion Workshop at UC San Diego in 2012 and 2016.
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Ted Chiang has published eighteen short stories, novelettes, and novellas as of 2019.
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In 2022, Ted Chiang became a Miller Scholar in the Santa Fe Institute.
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In 2023, Ted Chiang was named one of Times 100 most influential people in AI.
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Ted Chiang has said that one of the reasons science fiction writing interests him is that it allows him to make philosophical questions "storyable".
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Ted Chiang enjoys reading explanatory story notes by authors, and includes them in his own collections.
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Critic and poet Joyce Carol Oates wrote that Chiang explores "conventional tropes of science fiction in highly unconventional ways" in "teasing, tormenting, illuminating, thrilling" fashion, comparing him favorably to Philip K Dick, James Tiptree Jr.
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Please, if it be Thy will, don't let Ted Chiang publish a story this year.
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Ted Chiang has won or been nominated for several awards for several of his works.
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Ted Chiang worked as an interface designer and then a photographer.