The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. For extra credit, check out Chiang’s “ Stories of Your Life and Others” (Tor, 2002), a compendium of his first eight stories. I interviewed Ted in 2010 and his wise words are still vibrant as freshly. We hope that you will read “ Exhalation” this weekend, and that you will let us know your thoughts. Ted Chiang is the author of Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation. Best of all, the neuroscience at the heart of the story originates in a memorable self-dissection of the protagonist’s own brain. The titular tale in Ted Chiangs second collection of short stories, The Exhalation, is written with a pictorial clarity that cannot fail to engage the. United by a humane intelligence that speaks very. “Exhalation” takes place in a pneumatics-based universe, where a scientist’s discovery reveals the neural correlates of consciousness and the mechanics of the upcoming end of life and time. The science fiction novella Story of Your Life is the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival. He graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree.

Our “Neuroscience in Fiction” selection for this Friday is Ted Chiang’s short story “Exhalation” (2008), published in the anthology, 'Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy”, and winner of the British Science Fiction Association, the Locus, and the Hugo Awards.Ĭhiang does not write very often, but when he does the result is usually spectacular. Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. I would then be able to dissect my own brain.” By Florian Thillmann (de:Benutzer:Flothi) (own work / selbst fotografiert) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 ()“ Once the preparations were complete, I was able to place each of my hands on a nest of knobs and levers and control a pair of manipulators situated behind my head, and use the periscope to see what they worked on.

Ted chiang short stories