

If you don't know his name, let's fix that. "Ted Chiang is one of the best and smartest writers working today.


but with the perfection of slow-growing crystal.” -Lev Grossman, Best of the Decade: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Techland “Meticulously pieced together, utterly thought through, Chiang’s stories emerge slowly. Every sentence is the perfect incision in the dissection of the idea at hand.” - The Guardian “Shines with a brutal, minimalist elegance. raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human.” - The New York Times “Blend absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space. “Chiang writes with a gruff and ready heart that brings to mind George Saunders and Steven Millhauser, but he’s uncompromisingly cerebral.” - The New Yorker “A swell movie adaptation always sends me to the source material, so Arrival had me pick up Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others: lean, relentless, and incandescent.” -Colson Whitehead, GQ
