Gary reviewed Exhalation by Ted Chiang
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4 stars
Fantastic stories! A couple I had a difficult time "getting into" but that's probably a personal flaw, not one of the author's.
Ted Chiang: Exhalation (2019)
350 pages
English language
Published Aug. 9, 2019
Exhalation: Stories is a collection of short stories by American writer Ted Chiang. The book was initially released on May 7, 2019, by Alfred A. Knopf. This is Ted Chiang's second collection of short works, after the 2002 book Stories of Your Life and Others. Exhalation: Stories contains nine stories exploring such issues as humankind's 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. Seven tales were initially published between 2005 and 2015; "Omphalos" and "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" are originals.
Fantastic stories! A couple I had a difficult time "getting into" but that's probably a personal flaw, not one of the author's.