Ted Chiang

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Ted Chiang at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention

Ted Chiang (* 1967 in Port Jefferson , Long Island , New York ) is an American science fiction writer .

life and work

Ted Chiang graduated from Brown University with a degree in computer science . Today he lives in Bellevue near Seattle , Washington .

In 1989 he was a participant in the renowned Clarion workshop for budding science fiction and fantasy authors, where he subsequently also worked as a lecturer. His works have won numerous prizes: his first short story Tower of Babylon (1990) won a Nebula Award , as did the short story Story of Your Life (1999), which also won a Sturgeon Award and a Seiun Award and was published in 2016 under the title " Arrival " was filmed for the cinema. He received another Nebula as well as a Hugo Award , Locus and Seiun Award for his novella Hell Is the Absence of God (2001), a Hugo Award, Seiun Award and Locus Award for his novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects . Seventy-Two Letters received the Sidewise Award and The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate Hugo, Nebula and Seiun Award, as well as Exhalation Hugo and Locus Award, as well as the BSFA Award .

He turned down a Hugo nomination for "Liking What You See: A Documentary". In 2013 he received the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize for the best foreign work. In 2017 he received the British Fantasy Award for his work on the film Arrival .

criticism

In Germany, Ted Chiang was first noticed more strongly after the publication of the first volume of stories by Golkonda-Verlag . Like the first, the second volume received a number of positive reviews. Denis Scheck reviewed the stories on the ARD show hot off the press and describes Chiang as "currently the best writer of science fiction and fantasy stories" and rates him as "the narrative most amazing, intellectually exciting and aesthetically innovative", which he has in the last ten Years ago.

“Chiang is not satisfied with glittering surfaces, glowing buttons and colorful cyber worlds. Rather, the computer scientist studied the effects of certain inventions on the mind and body of humans. Sometimes it comes across as a steampunk spook, sometimes as a science thriller. But always as SF literature for advanced students. "

- Deutschlandradio Kultur

Awards

  • 1991 Nebula Award for Tower of Babylon as best short novel
  • 1992 Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Award for Understand for Best Short Novel
  • 1992 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
  • 1994 Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award for Understand for Best Foreign Short Story
  • 1999 Locus Award for Story of Your Life for best story
  • 1999 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Story of Your Life
  • 2000 Nebula Award for Story of Your Life for best story
  • 2001 Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award for Story of Your Life for Best Foreign Short Story
  • 2001 Locus Award for Catching crumbs from the table as best short story
  • 2001 Sidewise Award for Seventy-two Letters as best short story
  • 2002 Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award for Seventy-two Letters for Best Foreign Short Story
  • 2002 Hugo Award for Hell Is the Absence of God as best short novel
  • 2002 Locus Award for Hell Is the Absence of God as best short novel
  • 2002 Seiun Award for Story of Your Life as the best translated short story
  • 2003 Locus Award for Stories of Your Life and Others as best collection
  • 2003 Nebula Award for Hell Is the Absence of God as best short novel
  • 2004 Seiun Award for Hell Is the Absence of God for best translated short story
  • 2008 Hugo Award for The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate as best short novel
  • 2008 Nebula Award for The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate as best short novel
  • 2009 British Science Fiction Association Award for Exhalation for Best Short Story
  • 2009 Hugo Award for exhalation as best short story
  • 2009 Locus Award for exhalation as best short story
  • 2009 Seiun Award for The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate for best translated short story
  • 2010 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Exhalation as the best foreign story
  • 2011 Hugo Award for The Lifecycle of Software Objects as best narrative
  • 2011 Locus Award for The Lifecycle of Software Objects for best narrative
  • 2012 Italia Award for The Lifecycle of Software Objects for best international novel
  • 2012 Seiun Award for The Lifecycle of Software Objects as best translated short story
  • 2013 Kurd-Laßwitz Prize for Hell Is the Absence of God as the best foreign-language novel
  • 2020 Science Fiction Hall of Fame

bibliography

Collections
  • Stories of Your Life and Others (2002; also: Arrival , 2016)
  • Exhalation (2019)

German compilations:

  • Hell is the absence of God. Translated by molosovsky. Golkonda, 2011, ISBN 978-3-942396-12-7 . Also called: Arrival: Hell is the absence of God. Translated by molosovsky. Golkonda (General Series # 212), 2017, ISBN 978-3-946503-12-5 .
  • The true essence of things. Edited by Hannes Riffel & Karlheinz Schlögl. Translated by Karin Will and Michael Plogmann. Golkonda (General Series # 117), 2014, ISBN 978-3-944720-17-3 .
Short stories

If only the title and year are given as the source for translations of short stories, the complete information can be found in the corresponding collective edition.

1990:

  • Tower of Babylon (in: Omni, November 1990 )
    • English: The Tower of Babel. Translated by molosovsky. In: Hell is the absence of God. 2011.
  • Tower of Babylon (1990)

1991:

  • Division by Zero (1991, in: Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell (Eds.): Full Spectrum 3 )
    • German: Divided by zero. Translated by Karin Will. In: The true essence of things. 2014.
  • Understand (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1991 )
    • German: Understand. Translated by Karin Will. In: The true essence of things. 2014.

1998:

  • Story of Your Life (1998, in: Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Ed.): Starlight 2 )
    • German: story of your life. Translated by molosovsky. In: Hell is the absence of God. 2011.

2000:

  • Catching Crumbs from the Table (in: Nature, June 1, 2000 ; also: The Evolution of Human Science , 2002)
    • German: The evolution of human knowledge. In: The true essence of things. 2014. Also as: Official statement on the state of human research. In: Spectrum of Science, # 3.17. Spectrum of Science, 2017.
  • Seventy-Two Letters (2000, in: Ellen Datlow (Ed.): Vanishing Acts )
    • English: Seventy-two letters. In: The true essence of things. 2014.

2001:

  • Hell Is the Absence of God (2001, in: Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Ed.): Starlight 3 )
    • English: Hell is the absence of God. Translated by molosovsky. In: Hell is the absence of God. 2011.

2002:

  • Liking What You See: A Documentary (2002, in: Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others )
    • German: The truth before your eyes. Translated by Michael Plogmann. In: Pandora, Fall 2007. Shayol # 73, 2007, ISBN 978-3-926126-73-3 .

2005:

  • What's Expected of Us (in: Nature, July 7, 2005 )
    • German: What is expected of us. Translated by Karin Will. In: The true essence of things. 2014.

2007:

  • The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (2007)
    • English: The merchant at the alchemist's portal. Translated by molosovsky. In: Hell is the absence of God. 2011.

2008:

  • Exhalation (2008, in: Jonathan Strahan (Ed.): Eclipse Two: New Science Fiction and Fantasy )
    • German: exhalation. Translated by molosovsky. In: Hell is the absence of God. 2011.

2010:

  • The Lifecycle of Software Objects (2010)
    • German: The life cycle of software objects. Translated by Karin Will. In: The true essence of things. 2014.

2011:

  • Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny (2011, in: Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Eds.): The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities )
    • English: Dacey's fully automated nanny. Translated by Karin Will. In: The true essence of things. 2014.

2013:

  • The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (in: Subterranean, Fall 2013 )

2016:

  • The Great Silence (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May-June 2016 ; with Calzadilla and Allora)

2019:

  • Better Versions of You (in: The New York Times Magazine Fiction Supplement, April 28, 2019 )
  • Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom (2019, in: Ted Chiang: Exhalation )
  • Omphalos (2019, in: Ted Chiang: Exhalation )

Film adaptations

literature

Web links

Commons : Ted Chiang  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Denis Scheck: Review in “Hot off the press”. ARD , November 24, 2013, accessed on April 2, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Ted Chiang on the pages of the Golkonda publishing house. Retrieved April 2, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Marten Hahn: Philosopher in the garb of the storyteller. Ted Chiang: "The true essence of things". Deutschlandradio Kultur, February 20, 2014, accessed on April 2, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Chiang, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chiang Feng-nan (alternative spelling); Jiang Fengnan (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Jefferson , New York