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In this episode we review and discuss Exhalation and Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang's two short story collections.
These seventeen stories are full of novel scientific ideas, wonderful characters, and thoughtful takes on the morality of future technologies and how they will change society. We certainly aren't alone in thinking they're wonderful - Ted Chiang has won four Hugos, four Nebulas, and four Locus awards for his stories.
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continue reading
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