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Ted Chiang was born on 20 October, 1967 in Port Jefferson, New York, U.S., is an American science fiction writer (born 1967). Discover Ted Chiang's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

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Occupation Fiction writer, technical writer
Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 20 October 1967
Birthday 20 October
Birthplace Port Jefferson, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1967

Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer.

His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards.

Ted Chiang was born in 1967 in Port Jefferson, New York.

His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (姜峯楠; Jiāng Fēngnán).

Both of his parents were born in Mainland China and immigrated to Taiwan with their families during the Chinese Communist Revolution before immigrating to the United States.

His father, Fu-pen Chiang, is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Stony Brook University.

His mother was a librarian.

1989

Chiang graduated from Brown University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.

Chiang began submitting stories to magazines in high school.

After attending the Clarion Workshop in 1989 he sold his first story, "The Tower of Babylon", to Omni magazine, and was awarded a Nebula Award for it in 1990.

His later stories have won numerous other awards, making him one of the most-honored writers in contemporary science fiction.

, he was working as a technical writer in the software industry and resided in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle.

1990

Chiang has won the following science fiction awards for his works: a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990); the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992; a Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award for "Story of Your Life" (1998); a Sidewise Award for "Seventy-Two Letters" (2000); a Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Hugo Award for his novelette "Hell Is the Absence of God" (2002); a Locus Award for his short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others (2003); a Nebula and Hugo Award for his novelette "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007); a British Science Fiction Association Award, a Locus Award, and the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Exhalation" (2009); a Hugo Award and Locus Award for his novella "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" (2010); a Locus Award for his short story collection Exhalation: Stories (2020); and a Locus Award for his novelette "Omphalos" (2020).

2003

Chiang turned down a Hugo nomination for his short story "Liking What You See: A Documentary" in 2003, on the grounds that the story was rushed due to editorial pressure and did not turn out as he had really wanted.

2012

Chiang was an instructor at the Clarion Workshop at UC San Diego in 2012 and 2016.

In 2022, Chiang became a Miller Scholar in the Santa Fe Institute.

Chiang has published eighteen short stories, novelettes, and novellas

In 2023, Chiang was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in AI.

Chiang has said Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke inspired him when he was young, while the works of Gene Wolfe, John Crowley and Edward Bryant were his creative influences in college.

Chiang has said that one of the reasons science fiction writing interests him is that it allows him to make philosophical questions "storyable".

He enjoys reading story notes by authors, and himself includes them with his short story collections.

He considers these not the "precise response to 'How did you get the idea?,' but it's a way to answer the reader if they knew what the best question to ask [about the story] was".

Critic John Clute has written that Chiang's work has a "tight-hewn and lucid style... [which] has a magnetic effect on the reader".

Critic and poet Joyce Carol Oates wrote that Chiang explores "conventional tropes of science fiction in highly unconventional ways" in "teasing, tormenting, illuminating, thrilling" fashion, comparing him favorably to Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree Jr.. and Jorge Luis Borges.

Writer Peter Watts has praised Chiang's work, writing: "We share a secret prayer, we writers of short SF. We utter it whenever one of our stories is about to appear in public, and it goes like this: Please, Lord. Please, if it be Thy will, don’t let Ted Chiang publish a story this year."

2013

In 2013, his collection of translated stories Die Hölle ist die Abwesenheit Gottes won the German Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best foreign science fiction.

2016

His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival (2016).

The screenwriter Eric Heisserer adapted Chiang's story "Story of Your Life" into the 2016 film Arrival.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve, the film stars Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.

As of 2016, Chiang lives in Bellevue, Washington with his long-time partner, Marcia Glover, whom he met while both were working at Microsoft.

She worked as an interface designer and then a photographer.

Chiang goes to the gym three times per week and enjoys video games.

2019

Former US president Barack Obama included Chiang's short story collection Exhalation in his 2019 reading list, praising it as the "best kind of science fiction".

Chiang has commented on "metacognition, or thinking about one’s own thinking" being something most humans, but neither animals nor current AI, are capable of, and that capitalism erodes the capacity for this insight, especially for tech company executives.

2020

He was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame in 2020–2021.

Chiang is also a frequent non-fiction contributor to the New Yorker Magazine, most recently on topics related to computer technology, such as artificial intelligence.