Writer 姜峯楠 Ted Chiang of Microsoft engineer

The collection was reprinted in 2016 as Arrival to coincide with the adaptation of "Story of Your Life" as the film Arrival.^[11][12

1.  "How a Bellevue writer's short story became a major new film". The Seattle Times. November 2, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2019.

Biography 

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Early life, family and education

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Ted Chiang was born in 1967 in Port Jefferson, New York.^[3] His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (姜峯楠; Jiāng Fēngnán).^[4] Both of his parents were born in Mainland China and immigrated to Taiwan with their families during the Chinese Communist Revolution before immigrating to the United States.^[5] His father, Fu-pen Chiang, is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Stony Brook University.^[6] His mother was a librarian.^[7]

Chiang graduated from Brown University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.^[8][9][10]

 

Writing style and influences

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Chiang has said Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke inspired him when he was young,^[19] while the works of Gene Wolfe, John Crowley and Edward Bryant were his creative influences in college.^[10]

Chiang has said that one of the reasons science fiction writing interests him is that it allows him to make philosophical questions "storyable".^[10] He enjoys reading story notes by authors, and himself includes them with his short story collections. He considers these not the "precise response to 'How did you get the idea?,' but it's a way to answer the reader if they knew what the best question to ask [about the story] was".^[20]

Reception

Personal life

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As of 2016, Chiang lives in Bellevue, Washington with his long-time partner, Marcia Glover,^[60] whom he met while both were working at Microsoft. She worked as an interface designer and then a photographer. Chiang goes to the gym three times per week and enjoys video games.^[61]     

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang#Personal_life?

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Career

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Chiang began submitting stories to magazines in high school. After attending the Clarion Workshop in 1989 he sold his first story, "The Tower of Babylon", to Omni magazine,^[4] and was awarded a Nebula Award for it in 1990. His later stories have won numerous other awards, making him one of the most-honored writers in contemporary science fiction. Chiang's first short story collection, Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) was published in 2002 by Tor Books and comprises his first eight stories. The collection was reprinted in 2016 as Arrival to coincide with the adaptation of "Story of Your Life" as the film Arrival.^[11][12]

As of July 2002, Chiang was working as a technical writer in the software industry and resided in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle.^[13] He was an instructor at the Clarion Workshop at UC San Diego in 2012 and 2016.^[14]

Chiang's second short story collection, Exhalation: Stories was published in May 2019 by Alfred A. Knopf.^[15] Chiang has published eighteen short stories, novelettes, and novellas as of 2019. In 2022, Chiang became a Miller Scholar in the Santa Fe Institute.^[16][17]

In 2023, Chiang was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in AI.^[18]