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authors featured in the Big Sky Library

姜峯楠  |  Ted Chiang

Legal name:  姜峯楠

Transliterated name:  Chiang Feng-nan

Birth place:  Port Jefferson, NY, USA

Birth date:  1967

Language:  English

Bibliographic comments:  Winner of the 2024 PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

Biographic comments:  Of Chinese/Taiwanese descent.

Collections

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002

<  First edition, July 2002

Tor

ISBN 0-765-30418-X

Hardcover, 333 pages

$24.95 / C$34.95

Notes:

  •  'Story Notes', essay by Ted Chiang.

  •  Winner of the 2003 Locus Award for Best Collection.

  >   Library edition

Fiction: Tower of Babylon  //  Understand  //  Division by Zero  //  Story of Your Life  //  Seventy-Two Letters  //  The

Evolution of Human Science  //  Hell Is the Absence of God  //  Liking What You See: A Documentary

Exhalation

2019

<  First edition, 7 May 2019

Borzoi / Alfred A. Knopf

ISBN 978-1-101-94788-3

Hardcover, 350 pages, deckle edge

$25.95 / C$34.95

Notes:

  •  Chosen by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2019.

  >   Library edition

Fiction: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate  //  Exhalation  //  What's Expected of Us  //  The Lifecycle of Software

Objects  //  Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny  //  The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling  //  The Great Silence  //  

Omphalos  //  Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

Short fiction chapbooks

The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate

2007

<  First edition, 23 July 2007

Subterranean Press

ISBN 978-1-596-06100-2

Hardcover, 60 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  Illustrated by Jacob McMurray.

  •  Winner of the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the 2012 Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story.

The Lifecycle of Software Objects

2010

<  First edition, 31 July 2010

Subterranean Press

ISBN 978-1-59606-317-4

Hardcover, 151 pages

$25.00

Notes:

  •  Illustrated by Christian Pierce.

  •  Winner of the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the 2012 Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story.

  >   Library edition

The Great Silence

2015

<  First edition, 11 October 2016

Electric Literature

Digital

$1.22

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler.

  >   Library edition

Tower of Babylon

2016

<  First edition, 4 May 2016

Vintage Books

Digital

Unknown cover price

Notes: