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"Breathing" Author: [US] Ted Jiang Translator: Geng Hui/Ent/Hacken Lee/Xianghui Yao Publisher: Yilin Press Douban Science Fiction Top 100
"Breathing" Author: [US] Ted Jiang Translator: Geng Hui/Ent/Hacken Lee/Xianghui Yao Publisher: Yilin Press Douban Science Fiction Top 100
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Introduction · · · · · ·
★ A new collection of works by Ted Chiang, the Chinese-American science fiction genius and author of the original novel of "Arrival".
★ 9 short stories, 9 episodes of "Black Mirror", integrating the poetry of science fiction with the romance of philosophy: All my desires and contemplations are the air slowly exhaled by this universe.
★ Ted Chiang is on every “must read science fiction” list.
After 30 years of debut and only 17 short stories, he has won four Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, three Locus Awards, and three Japan Science Fiction Awards, in addition to the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Sturgeon Medal, and the Campbell Medal.
★ Obama sincerely recommends: This is what an excellent science fiction novel should be like. "Breathing" makes you think about those big questions and feel the warmth of being human.
★ Time Magazine's must-read list of 2019, The New York Times' top ten books of 2019
A new collection of Ted Chiang's works, including "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Door", "Breathing", "The Long Road Ahead", "The Life Cycle of Software", "Darcy's New Automatic Nanny", "The Double Truth", "The Great Silence", "Navel", and "Anxiety is the Dizziness Caused by Freedom" -
Alchemist's Gate, free travel through time and space, how does the science fiction version of One Thousand and One Nights unfold?
Every breath I take brings this universe one step closer to death.
Free will does not exist, but until you believe it, it has no destructive power.
Artificial beings are everywhere in science fiction, like Athena jumping out of Zeus' head, and they appear fully formed. But consciousness doesn't work like this, so what is the real life cycle of a software entity?
My babysitter is a machine, what does that mean to a newborn?
Our memories are always playing tricks on us, but we don't realize it. How would civilization change if everyone started keeping a continuous life log?
We are not the center of the universe, but humans did not know this at first.
If parallel spaces do exist and conversations can take place, how would you use them to maximize the possibilities of life?
About the Author
Ted Chiang
A Chinese-American science fiction writer, he is one of the best contemporary science fiction writers. Born in 1967, he graduated from Brown University with a degree in computer science. He attended the "Science Fiction Huangpu" Horn Writing Class and is now a freelance programmer. Since publishing his debut work "The Tower of Babylon" in 1990, he has only published 17 short stories or novellas, but he has won almost all the science fiction awards, including the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and the Campbell Award.
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