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Ted Chiang

Chiang, Ted

Birth place: Port Jefferson, New York, USA

59 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
November 1990 50 Short Fiction Tower of Babylon Omni, November 1990
August 1991 20 Essay Letter (NYRSF, August 1991) The New York Review of Science Fiction, August 1991
August 1991 86 Short Fiction Understand Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1991
September 1991 23 Essay Letter (NYRSF, September 1991) The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1991
November 1991 7 Essay Letter (Science Fiction Eye #9) Science Fiction Eye, #9, November 1991
June 1998 23 Essay Letter (NYRSF, June 1998) The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 1998
June 2000 Short Fiction Catching Crumbs from the Table Nature, June 1, 2000
April 2001 Review Seventy-two Letters Strange Horizons, 16 April 2001
June 2002 19 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Locus, #497 June 2002
July 2002 21 Review Stories of Your Life and Others The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 2002
July 2002 34 Review The Stories of Your Life and Others Vector 224
August 2002 6 Interview Ted Chiang: Science, Language, and Magic Locus, #499 August 2002
September 2002 70 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Locus, #500 September 2002
September 2002 21 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Vector 225
September 2002 23 Interview The Absence of God Interzone, September 2002
November 2002 55 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Interzone, November-December 2002
December 2002 88 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Talebones #25, Fall 2002
December 2002 39 Review Stories of Your Life and Others The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2002
2003 99 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Foundation, #87 Spring 2003
April 2003 Interview The Absence of God: Ted Chiang Interviewed Infinity plus, April 2003
May 2003 138 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Asimov's Science Fiction, May 2003
July 2003 134 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2003
November 2003 34 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Vector 232
April 2005 123 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #18, April/May 2005
July 2005 Short Fiction What's Expected of Us Nature, July 7, 2005
May 2006 51|51.1 Review Stories of Your Life and Others Albedo One, #31
July 2007 Review The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate Strange Horizons, 16 July 2007
July 2007 57 Review The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate Interzone, July-August 2007
September 2007 135 Short Fiction The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2007
October 2007 57 Review The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate Locus, #561 October 2007
2008 23 Essay On "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" The SFWA Bulletin, Spring 2008
November 2008 7 Essay The Problem of the Traveling Salesman Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, November 2008
February 2009 |5 Short Fiction Exhalation StarShipSofa, No 66
February 2009 Short Fiction Hell Is the Absence of God PodCastle, PC040
October 2009 23 Essay Letter (NYRSF, October 2009) The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 2009
July 2010 Review The Lifecycle of Software Objects SF Crowsnest, July 2010
July 2010 16 Review The Lifecycle of Software Objects Locus,#594 July 2010
October 2010 15 Review The Lifecycle of Software Objects Locus, #597 October 2010
November 2010 3 Short Fiction The Lifecycle of Software Objects Subterranean Online, Fall 2010
November 2010 Review The Lifecycle of Software Objects Strange Horizons, 15 November 2010
December 2010 18 Essay Reasoning About the Body Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, November 2010
July 2011 6 Interview Ted Chiang: Scientific Method Locus, #606 July 2011
October 2011 Essay Introduction to "Particle Theory" Strange Horizons, 31 October 2011
December 2012 |16 Interview Author Spotlight: Ted Chiang Lightspeed, December 2012
December 2012 |2 Short Fiction Story of Your Life Lightspeed, December 2012
September 2013 2 Short Fiction The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling Subterranean, Fall 2013
March 2014 Review The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling Strange Horizons, 3 March 2014
April 2014 |21 Interview Author Spotlight: Ted Chiang Lightspeed, April 2014
May 2016 134 Short Fiction The Great Silence The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May-June 2016
July 2016 |11 Short Fiction Book Excerpt: Stories of Your Life and Others (from "Seventy-Two Letters") Lightspeed, July 2016
April 2019 11 Interview A Conversation with Ted Chiang The New York Times Magazine Fiction Supplement, April 28, 2019
April 2019 1 Short Fiction Better Versions of You The New York Times Magazine Fiction Supplement, April 28, 2019
May 2019 |4 Review Exhalation Strange Horizons, 6 May 2019
May 2019 Short Fiction It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning The New York Times, May 27, 2019
June 2019 33 Review Exhalation The New York Times Book Review, June 2, 2019
November 2019 83 Review Exhalation The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2019
November 2019 83 Review Exhalation Interzone, November-December 2019
December 2019 13 Review Exhalation The New York Times Book Review, December 15, 2019
May 2022 201 Review Exhalation Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May-June 2022

9 English-language books

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1991 Hugo Award Best Novelette Tower of Babylon Finalist
1991 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Tower of Babylon Finalist
1991 Nebula Award Novelette Tower of Babylon Winner
1991 SF Chronicle Award Novelette Tower of Babylon Runner-up
1992 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Novelette Understand Winner
1992 Hugo Award Best Novelette Understand Finalist
1992 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Understand Nominee
1992 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Division by Zero Nominee
1993 Nebula Award Short Story Division by Zero Nominee
1998 HOMer Award Novella Story of Your Life Nominee
1998 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Story of Your Life Nominee
1998 Premio Ignotus Mejor cuento extranjero - Best Foreign Story La torre de Babilonia Finalist
1999 Hugo Award Best Novella Story of Your Life Finalist
1999 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Story of Your Life Nominee
1999 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Story of Your Life Winner
2000 Nebula Award Novella Story of Your Life Winner
2000 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History Best Short Form Alternate History Seventy-Two Letters Winner
2001 Hugo Award Best Novella Seventy-Two Letters Finalist
2001 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Seventy-Two Letters Finalist
2001 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Catching Crumbs from the Table Nominee
2001 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Seventy-Two Letters Nominee
2001 World Fantasy Award Best Novella Seventy-Two Letters Nominee
2002 Hugo Award Best Novelette Hell Is the Absence of God Winner
2002 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Liking What You See: A Documentary Nominee
2002 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Hell Is the Absence of God Winner
2002 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Hell Is the Absence of God Nominee
2003 Hugo Award Best Novelette Liking What You See: A Documentary Nominee
2003 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Stories of Your Life and Others Winner
2003 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Liking What You See: A Documentary Runner-up
2003 Mythopoeic Award Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Stories of Your Life and Others Nominee
2003 Nebula Award Novelette Hell Is the Absence of God Winner
2003 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Liking What You See: A Documentary Nominee
2005 Premio Ignotus Mejor cuento extranjero - Best Foreign Story El infierno es la ausencia de Dios Runner-up
2007 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate Nominee
2007 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère La tour de Babylone Nominee
2008 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction Exhalation Winner
2008 Hugo Award Best Novelette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate Winner
2008 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate Runner-up
2008 Nebula Award Novelette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate Winner
2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate Nominee
2009 Hugo Award Best Short Story Exhalation Winner
2009 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Exhalation Winner
2010 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère Exhalaison Winner
2011 Hugo Award Best Novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects Winner
2011 Locus Poll Award Best Novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects Winner
2011 Nebula Award Novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects Nominee
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Novelette Understand Nominee
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Novelette Tower of Babylon Nominee
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Novella Seventy-Two Letters Nominee
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Novella Story of Your Life Winner
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Novelette Hell Is the Absence of God Winner
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Novelette The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate Runner-up
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects Nominee
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Novella Liking What You See: A Documentary Finalist
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Short Story Exhalation Winner
2013 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Bestes ausländisches Werk Die Hölle ist die Abwesenheit Gottes Winner
2013 Premio Ignotus Mejor cuento extranjero - Best Foreign Story El ciclo de vida de los objetos de software Runner-up
2014 Hugo Award Best Novelette The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling Runner-up
2014 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling Runner-up
2015 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Bestes ausländisches Werk Das wahre Wesen der Dinge Nominee
2016 Premio Ignotus Mejor cuento extranjero - Best Foreign Story La verdad de los hechos, la verdad del corazón Runner-up
2019 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Exhalation Nominee
2019 Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction Exhalation Nominee
2020 Hugo Award Best Novelette Omphalos Runner-up
2020 Hugo Award Best Novella Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom Finalist
2020 Ignyte Award Best Novelette Omphalos Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Exhalation Winner
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Omphalos Winner
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom Finalist
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning Runner-up
2020 Nebula Award Novella Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom Nominee
2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Omphalos Nominee
2021 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère Expiration Nominee
2021 The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work Exhalation Winner
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