Free Speculative Fiction Online: Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang

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Winner of 4 Hugos (and nominated for 6 more).

Winner of 4 Nebulas (and nominated for one more).

Nominated for one World Fantasy Award.

(These numbers refer to awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story only!)

Show all award-winning/ award-nominated fiction

Stories currently online:

Hell Is the Absence of God (Starlight Anthology #3, 2001)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2002.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2002.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy 2’.
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The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (F & SF, July 2007)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2008.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2007.
Reviews: Isfdb:

Recommended!

Exhalation (Eclipse Anthology #2, 2008)
Alternate link. Alternate link.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2009.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 14’.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Three.
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On the 2008 BSFA Awards Shortlist. Another audio link.

The Lifecycle of Software Objects (Subterranean, 2010)
Hugo for Best Novella 2011.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2010.
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (Subterranean Online, Fall 2013)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2014.
Reviews: Isfdb:
Three Stars on Tangent Online’s ‘2013 recommended reading’ list.
To be featured in Strahan’s Year’s Best SF & F, Volume Eight.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

What’s Expected of Us (Nature #436, July 2005)
Alternate link. Available as part of this magazine.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 11’.
Isfdb:
Does not show up in the StarShipSofa ToC, but it’s in the podcast!

The Great Silence (eflux journal, May 2015)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.