Even the stories I wasn’t very into had some of the most original ideas I’ve ever come across, and most of these will stay with me for a very long time. the title story is, but I can tell you that the last story in the collection is empirically correct, so I’ll take the rest at face value and suspend my disbelief. I can’t vouch for how accurate the science in e.g. He’s a technical writer in the software industry, and it shows in his style, so you’ve got to be open for that sort of thing. I’ve never read anything quite like it, and judging from the number of prestigious literary awards these stories were showered in, apparently I’m not the only one who thinks so. That’s what I found so stimulating in Ted Chiang’s writing-it’s not character-driven or plot-based, but about elaborating on an abstract idea. It would maybe be more fitting to describe these as speculative fiction even though I didn’t love them all, they certainly all have incredibly original ideas at their root. This leads to more theological/philosophical questions about good, evil, God, and what it means to be human-and at what point we cease to be such. I picked it up after seeing Arrival, which I found to be the most original and refreshing take on a sci-fi trope that I’d seen in a long time, maybe ever.Ĭontrary to most mainstream sci-fi, these stories are about the inner space and ideas, especially about analyzing patterns of mathematics, linguistics, and neuroscience.
This is Ted Chiang’s only collected published work, and it’s truly something else.
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