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Ted Chiang [1967-0] American
Rank: 105
Writer, Fiction writer


Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan.
Chiang's short fiction works have won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, four Locus awards, and others.


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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
101
The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.
102
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
103
Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.
104
When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
105
I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
106
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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