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2019 drove of brusk stories by Ted Chiang

Exhalation: Stories

Hardcover edition
Writer	Ted Chiang
Original title	Exhalation: Stories
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction • fantasy
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Media type	Impress, e-book, audiobook
Pages	368 pp (beginning edition, hardback)
ISBN	978-1101947883 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC	1077712105

Exhalation: Stories

is a collection of brusque stories by American writer Ted Chiang. The volume was initially released on May vii, 2019, by Alfred A. Knopf. This is Ted Chiang’s second collection of brusque works, after the 2002 book
Stories of Your Life and Others.
Exhalation: Stories
contains ix stories exploring such issues every bit humankind’south place in the universe, the nature of humanity, bioethics, virtual reality, free will and determinism, time travel, and the uses of robotic forms of A.I.^[1]
Seven tales were initially published between 2005 and 2015; “Omphalos” and “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Liberty” are originals.^[2]
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Contents

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• “The Merchant and the Alchemist’south Gate” (originally published by Subterranean Press in 2007; Nebula Award, Hugo Award, and Seiun Award winner)
• “Exhalation” (originally published in Eclipse 2 in 2008; BSFA, Locus Laurels, and Hugo Award winner)
• “What’due south Expected of U.s.” (originally published in
  Nature, Volume 436 Upshot 7047, half-dozen July 2005)
• “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” (originally published by Subterranean Press in 2010; Hugo Honor and Locus Laurels winner)
• “Dacey’southward Patent Automatic Nanny” (originally published in
  The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities
  (edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer) June 2011, Harper Voyages)
• “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” (originally published past Subterranean Printing Magazine, August 2013; Hugo Award finalist)
• “The Great Silence” (originally published by eastward-flux periodical, 2015)
• “Omphalos” (Hugo Award finalist)
• “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” (Hugo Laurels and Nebula Award finalist)

Reception

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Joyce Ballad Oates of
The New Yorker
stated, “From technological ingenuity flows ethical intricacy. The stories in “Exhalation” are mostly not so magically inventive equally those in Chiang’s commencement collection, simply each is still probable to linger in the retentivity the way riddles may linger—teasing, tormenting, illuminating, thrilling.”^[1]
A reviewer of
Kirkus Reviews
added, “Visionary speculative stories that will change the style readers see themselves and the world around them: This book delivers in a big style.”^[4]
Constance Grady of
Phonation
gave the book 4 points of five, commenting, “The stories in Exhalation are a shining example of science fiction at its best. They have both science and humanism deeply seriously, which is why information technology’due south and then satisfying to lookout Chiang’s shining, intricate machine at work: You know that any the auto builds, it will tell you something new almost man beings.”^[five]
Adam Morgan of
The A.V. Club
mentioned, “But if anything in this book has a shot at becoming the next
Inflow, it’s the 70-page novella that closes the collection, “Feet Is The Dizziness Of Freedom.”^[6]
A reviewer of
Publishers Weekly
stated, “These nine stories introduce life-changing inventions and new worlds with radically dissimilar physical laws. In each, Chiang produces deeply moving drama from fascinating beginning premises.”^[7]
The title was besides included on President Barack Obama’south 2019 Summertime Reading Listing.^[8]

The book was named one of the top ten books of 2019 by
The New York Times Volume Review.^[9]

References

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External links

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• Exhalation: Stories
  title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Exhalation By Ted Chiang – Publisher Penguin Random House page with text and audio samples