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	Article: The Bridge Between Truth/Death and Power/Knowledge: Ted Chiang's "Seventy-two Letters", by Greg Beatty
		This makes his fiction extremely economical, and allows Chiang to focus instead on his core concerns, which are the relationships of his point of view characters to their societies and the physical universe, relationships which are always intimately interwoven and mediated by complex conceptual frames.
		Chiang's main characters explore their universes on profound levels, and in each story striking images mark a place where the fundamental laws of the universe must be re-examined, and communicate this need on the metaphoric level to both the character and the reader.
		Chiang has indicated privately that the original source of the term "golem," meaning unformed, or amorphous, was the reason that living and formerly living tissue resists the powers of nomenclature.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20010416/ted_chiang.shtml (3813 words)

	Amazon.ca: Stories of Your Life and Others: Books: Ted Chiang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Chiang has the gift that lies at the heart of good science fiction: a human story, beautifully told, in which the science is an expression of the deeper issues that the characters must confront.
		Ted, the wunderkind whose first published story won a Nebula (accepted before he went to Clarion, even!) who keeps winning awards and is known by all and has the audacity to not write very many stories and not one novel.
		Chiang's style is quasi-vonnegutian (an author he cites in his notes): short sections ranging from half a page to two pages, each bringing its own intellectual or emotional impact, adding a layer to the story.
	www.amazon.ca /Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/0765304198 (2169 words)

	Ted Chiang interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction
		Chiang's primary method is to change underlying natural laws or symbolic systems, creating worlds and situations that are fantastic to us but utterly rational to the characters that must live with them.
		Ted Chiang graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island in 1989 with a degree in Computer Science.
		Chiang did not leave any doubt as to his belief in the ideas behind his stories, however.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/inttchiang.htm (4450 words)

	Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others
		Chiang's denouement is not expected based on the original tale, nor telegraphed by Hillalum's story as he climbs ever higher.
		Although the story is disorienting at first as Chiang switches back and forth between the action, eventually he manages to bring the two plotlines together in a manner which, while it doesn't explain everything, does provide the reader with the necessary clues to piece the story together in a logical manner.
		Chiang presents a variety of points of view on the lookism, which can stand in for the racism and classism discussed in “Seventy-Two Letters,” and gives some insight into the mechanizations which go on behind the scenes during a public debate.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/chiang.html (1224 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang
		In Chiang's hands, SF really is the "literature of ideas" it is often held to be, and the genre's traditional "sense of wonder" is paramount.
		Similarly, in his notes, Chiang describes how "Story of Your Life" "grew out of [an] interest in the variational principles of physics": perhaps surprisingly, the tenderness of this story, and its astonishingly moving culmination, are not achieved despite the scientific speculation, but are direct functions of it.
		In "Tower of Babylon", Chiang brings his austere contemplation to bear on a universe for which the Tower of Babel is not a moral fable of scattered peoples but a philosophical investigation in architectural form.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,1201890,00.html (818 words)

	Ted Chiang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer.
		He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Sciences degree, and has attended Clarion.
		All of Chiang's stories except the last are collected in Stories of Your Life, and Others (1st US hardcover ed: ISBN 0-7653-0418-X; 1st US paperback ed.: ISBN 0-7653-0419-8).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ted_Chiang (189 words)

	Stories Of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang
		Not that the rest of Ted Chiang's skills aren't impressive because the level of writing throughout is excellent and enjoyable to read.
		Chiang is still a young writer and this is his first anthology.
		Ted Chiang has written some excellent, award-winning stories and conceived of some wonderful ideas in his short writing career and all of them up to the present are contained within 'Stories of Your Life And Others'.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /articles/books/2003/nz7078.php (572 words)

	Mudd Up! - dirt, sound, lit, rupture
		Science fiction but instead of writing about what the aliens look like or do or whatever, Chiang is concerned with -- for example -- how learning an alien language and internalizing the worldview it presupposes affects a linguist's grasp of time, teleology, and her relationship with her daughter.
		Of course, quoting Chiang isn't so useful since it is his form and flow and the meat of his ideas that we feast on; the more of it you can hold in your head at once the better it gets.
		Reading that Ted Chiang story was especially rewarding -- moreso than the total number of carrots which have ever passed through Paul Wall's mouth (lyrically, dietarally, gemologically, etc.).
	www.negrophonic.com /words/pivot/entry.php?id=270 (644 words)

	Ted Chiang Stories of Your Life and Others Reviewed by Stephanie Cage
		Chiang’s stories deal with the extraordinary, but their grounding in everyday details makes even the most bizarre occurrences seem perfectly believable.
		We follow her through a collage of moments from her past, present and future, gradually coming to know a cast of lightly sketched but very believable characters including her husband and the daughter to whom the story is addressed.
		Chiang is expert at implying a world beyond the boundaries of his story, while keeping the story itself tightly contained and neatly concluded.
	www.trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2005/chiang-stories_of_your.htm (744 words)

	Review of Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others
		Ted Chiang is one of the most honoured writers in science fiction -- he's won every major award in the field and the Nebula Award twice.
		Chiang's writing reminds me a great deal of Yann Martel's in Life of Pi: both writers have a grasp of smooth writing, writing that is also intriguing, and both can convey information in a pleasing way.
		Chiang makes the story work by taking us into the viewpoints of many different people, mostly around a college campus that is deciding whether to make calli mandatory on-campus.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/storiesofyourlife.htm (1135 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » Ted Chiang Interview
		Ted Chiang: The SF/F field is full of writers with distinctive voices.
		Ted Chiang: I wasn’t raised in any religion, so I don’t have such strong feelings toward religion that many people do.
		Ted Chiang: As I describe in the story notes in the collection, I realized that both of these ideas have relevance to the notion of self-replication.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/chiang (695 words)

	Understand by Ted Chiang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ted Chiang (1967-) is a technical writer who occasionally writes short SF that is then usually nominated for, or the winner of, awards.
		He is a private person whose short bio goes like this: "Ted Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York and currently lives in Bellevue, Washington.
		Chiang says, "SF needn't have anything to do with science, but to the extent that a work of SF reflects science, it's hard SF.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/HSFR/understa.html (443 words)

	Special Circumstances: Stories of your life and others by Ted Chiang
		Ted Chiang has built quite a reputation since winning two Nebula awards for his short stories and also the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1992.
		"Tower of Babylon", Ted Chiang's first story and Nebula award winner is probably the story that built his reputation.
		Ted Chiang seems to take quite a bit of inspiration from biblical sources, as is evident from "Hell is the Absence of God", a take on angels inspired by "The Prophecy".
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000220.html (441 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » Ted Chiang Interview
		Ted Chiang: The story that was published isn’t the story I wanted it to be.
		Ted Chiang: Culture has been shaping human evolution for a long time; the classic example is how the spread of slash-and-burn agriculture led to an increase in malaria-bearing mosquitoes, which led to an increased occurrence of the sickle-cell gene which imparts partial resistance to malaria.
		Ted Chiang: I don’t know of a single common theme that runs through all my stories, but perhaps what I most often wind up exploring is the relationship between the world as it is and the world as we perceive it to be.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/chiang/3 (645 words)

	The SF Site: A Conversation With Ted Chiang
		Ted Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York.
		In person, Ted Chiang is friendly and soft-spoken.
		Maddeningly, his author blurb on the jacket says only "Ted Chiang lives near Seattle, WA." Not a lot of help.
	www.sfsite.com /09b/tc136.htm (2286 words)

	Caught Like Theseus \| Columns \| SCI FI Weekly
		The continuing mystery of the work of Ted Chiang is that, like some Minotaur Aleph out of Jorge Luis Borges, it holds the attention.
		Its strategy is the strategy that underlies all of Chiang's stories: that of taking a premise about the nature of the world to be the case, and unpacking it.
		For the nature of true devotion of the stories of Ted Chiang is that they only stop when they are finished.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/column/sfw8670.html (1140 words)

	SF Signal: REVIEW: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
		Ted Chiang is a writer with a high award density.
		That is, he has written relatively few stories but has a multitude of award nominations and wins, which is why I went into this collection with some high expectations.
		Here's author Ted Chiang's interesting account of how the cover art for his collection came to be.
	www.sfsignal.com /archives/002342.html (658 words)

	Amazon.com: Stories of Your Life and Others: Books: Ted Chiang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Chiang's vision is not as dark as Egan's, and he's not nearly as fixated on the idea of posthumanity, but his breadth is if anything greater.
		I met Ted Chiang at a convention a year ago and he is thoughtful, fascinating and above all, humble.
		Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God" caused me to completely rethink my view on miracles, signs and proof of God's existence, as well as the problem of evil.
	www.amazon.com /Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/0765304198 (1965 words)

	SFFreader - Scott D. Danielson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ted Chiang's way of weaving a tender human story with serious thought-provoking science turns out to be a quality that he brings to the table with everything he writes.
		Ted Chiang has won multiple awards for these stories, and they are well deserved.
		If you enjoy stories of science and philosophy, and like them written with a generous slice of humanity, then Ted Chiang is a writer you've simply got to read.
	www.sffreader.com /2006/06/stories-of-your-life-and-others-by-ted.html (643 words)

	May BoTM: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang - sffworld.com
		Chiang has a unique perspective and his stories are meticulously crafted.
		I've read that he is a 'Technical Writer' in his day job and that the reason his output is so sparse is that he spends a lot of what spare time he has refining his ideas - so it's unlikely that we'll see a full-length novel from him; a pity.
		Basically the fallacy that Chiang has fallen prey to is thinking that the path is dependant upon the end result (the target) while in reality it is dependant upon the initial conditions.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?p=201407 (1707 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Stories of Your Life and Others
		Now, collected for the first time, are all seven of this extraordinary writer's extraordinary stories--plus a new story written especially for this volume.
		Description: Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990.
		These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=52996943 (347 words)

	BookSense.com
		Ted Chiang has published only seven stories, yet he has won the Nebula Award twice, the Sturgeon Award, and the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer.
		BookSense.com: The (almost) title story of your first short story collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, considers a woman who learns an alien language that gives her a new view on time.
		Ted Chiang: I've always been interested in stories that are told in non-chronological order, and one of the things I like about them is that they illustrate how knowing the ultimate outcome changes our perception of an earlier event.
	www.booksense.com /people/archive/chiangted.jsp (2112 words)

	Tenser, said the Tensor: "Story of Your Life", by Ted Chiang
		Chiang's protrayal of Louise Banks, his linguist character, is very convincing—so much so that I was surprised to discover that he has no formal linguistics background.
		It's available in Chiang's collection Stories of Your Life and Others as well as in the anthology Starlight 2 (edited by one of the blogosphere's own).
		If the claim is, as he phrases it, that there is a preferred order for the clauses in conditional constructions in all languages, it's pretty hard to disprove—you'd need a language in which both orders were equally "preferred"...whatever that might mean.
	tenser.typepad.com /tenser_said_the_tensor/2004/04/story_of_your_l.html (1635 words)

	Shirley Chiang — Ted Chiappari : ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Victoria Chiang, viola- Formerly a faculty member at the Julliard School and the Hartt School of...
		Dr. William Chiang is a prolific innovative scientist who has a proven track record of success in leading multi-discipline teams to meet demanding...
		Yun-Chung Chiang is an acupuncturist and Chinese herbal medical practitioner, as well as founder of the Chung Hua Clinic and Wen Wu...
	www.zoominfo.com /people/level2page6918.aspx (1592 words)

	Ted Chiang - Feministische phantastisch-utopische Literatur
		Chiang lebt in Bellevue in der Nähe von Seattle, Washington.
		Lou Anders (2002) A Conversation With Ted Chiang (July 2002).
		Ruth Mariampolski (2003?) Master of the Short Story: A Conversation with Ted Chiang.
	www.feministische-sf.de /einzelne_autorinnen/fsf_ted-chiang.html (284 words)

	Stories Of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang (Big Dumb Object)
		I heard a lot of hype around Ted Chiang's short stories, a handful produced over a few years and everyone saying they were brilliant.
		Tower Of Babylon is the first story in the collection, and Chiang's first published story.
		In the end it is a great discussion of the pros and cons of the technology, covering all the angles, and throwing in a character to care about.
	bigdumbobject.co.uk /archives/001218.html (707 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Book Review: Stories of Your Life
		Proving that maxim better than anyone in recent history is Ted Chiang.
		Chiang's entire oeuvre is collected in Stories of Your Life (Tor Books, Cdn$34.95).
		Chiang is a consummate stylist, and these lyrical tales aren't just great SF; they're great literature.
	www.sfwriter.com /brchiang.htm (192 words)

	Sorry, but I can't find "Story of Your Life" \| MetaFilter
		September 2, 2006 11:26 AM Here are four stories by the great Ted Chiang.
		Ted Chiang's work reminds me very strongly of Greg Egan's, although the subject matter differs a fair bit.
		There will be a new Ted Chiang story in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction next year, or so the assistant editor JJA has posted on his blog.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/54470 (941 words)

	Boing Boing: Short-story collection of the decade if not the century
		Ted Chiang's collection of short stories, "Stories of Your Life and Others," is out.
		So even if you're the kind of person who waits for the paperback, even if you're the kind of person who doesn't read short stories (which is basically everyone except short-story writers, it seems), this is the book you need to make an exception for.
		If you've read all of Ted's stories -- that's not a very large number of stories, so it's quite possible that you have -- buy this book so that you can read the original story, "Liking What You See: A Documentary." It's worth the price of admission.
	www.boingboing.net /2002/06/24/shortstory_collectio.html (413 words)

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