- American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, short stories, New York Times bestseller, Life change events
Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history.
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- Author
- Ted Chiang
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 317
- Publisher
- Frassinelli, Yi lin chu ban she, Denoël
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, tur, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780525433675
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“In memory of Brian Chiang and Jenna Felice.”
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