Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang (born 1967 in Port Jefferson, Long Iceland, New York) is an American science fiction author.

Life and work

His works won numerous prizes: Even his first short story Tower of Babylon ( 1990) won a Nebula Award, as well as the short story The Story of Your Life ( 1999), also a Sturgeon Award and Seiun Award won. Another Nebula and a Hugo Award, Locus Award and Seiun he received for his novel Hell Is the Absence of God (2001 ), a Hugo Award, Locus Award and Seiun 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, and the BSFA award.

A Hugo Award nomination for " Liking What You See: A Documentary " he refused. In 2013 he received the Kurd - Laßwitz Award for best foreign work.

Criticism

In Germany, Ted Chiang was first perceived more strongly after the release of the first band in the narrative Golkonda Verlag. As this first received a number of positive reviews and the second band. Denis Scheck -reviewed stories in the ARD program off the press and referred to Chiang as "the currently best writers of science fiction and fantasy stories " and appreciates him " narrative most astonishing, intellectually most exciting and aesthetically innovative in " what he in the last ten years 've read.

" Chiang is not content with glittering surfaces, lit buttons and colorful cyber worlds. The computer scientist is explored rather the effects of certain inventions on the mind and body of man. Time that comes as Steampunk Haunted therefore, sometimes as a science thriller. But always as SF literature for advanced students. "

Works

Stories

Short story collection

  • 2002 Stories of Your Life and Others ( Tower of Babylon, Understand, Division by Zero, Story of Your Life, Seventy -Two Letters, The Evolution of Human Science, Hell is the Absence of God, Liking What You See: A Documetary ) ISBN 978-1931520-72-0

German editions

  • The truth in mind in Pandora # 2 ( translation by Liking What You See: A Documentary by Michael Plogmann ), Shayol Verlag 2007
  • Hell is the absence of God (translation of the Tower of Babylon, The Story of Your Life, Hell Is the Absence of God, The Merchant and the Alchemist 's Gate and exhalation of molosovsky; Kurd - Laßwitz Award for best foreign work of 2012), Golconda Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-942396-12-7
  • The true nature of things (translations of Understand, Division by Zero, Seventy -Two Letters, The Evolution of Human Science, Liking What You See: A Documentary, What's Expected Of Us, The Lifecycle of Software Objects and Dacey 's Patent Automatic Nanny by Karin Will), Golkonda Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-944720-17-3 Paperback, eBook ISBN 978-3-944720-18-0
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