Ted Chiang's latest collection of short stories, "Exhalation" (Knopf 2019), out now, invites the mind to stretch and bend around thorny questions of physics, consciousness, free will and storytelling.

The emotional and the cerebral are expertly balanced in these meditations on the mysteries of existence Perhaps the world’s least hasty writer, Ted Chiang has built his fiercely dedicated fanbase ...

Tackling big ideas about the meaning of life can be difficult to pull off in fiction without seeming high-handed or abstract. But that’s not a problem for science-fiction writer Ted Chiang, who ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of Ted Chiang’s first sale, “Tower of Babylon” — a story that instantly snapped up a Nebula Award. In the decades since, he has consistently hewed to a course ...