“He would tell them about the shape of the world,” Chiang writes in one story, a line that could serve as a kind of personal directive. “That is no way to make a living as a writer.” Despite this, the fifty-two-year-old author does in fact make a living writing such stories in such spans of time, crafting remarkably poignant, thoughtful science fiction that, at times, resembles Borges filtered through Black Mirror, but with a thrilling sense of revelation, hope, and beauty that is all his own. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I write short stories at very long intervals,” Ted Chiang stresses to me, thrice, during our initial conversation.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |