![]() ![]() Over the past twenty-nine years, Chiang’s writing has won four Hugos, four Nebulas, four Locus Awards, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. ![]() ‘Tower of Babylon’, his first published novelette, won the Nebula Award and was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1991 – two of the most prestigious prizes in the field – and set an extraordinary trend for his fiction that continues unabated. Since 1990, Chiang’s entire body of work has consisted of seventeen stories. ![]() Why publish stand-alone space operas when storylines, character arcs, worlds, and revenues can be elaborated across trilogies? Why stop at one time-travel trilogy when fans are willing to buy prequels and sequels and sanctioned spin-offs? Why limit yourself to one mind-bending book every few years when annual titles will boost author profiles and sales? The motto upheld by much of the publishing industry nowadays seems to be more is more.Įxcept when it comes to Ted Chiang. Such narratives pose the deepest questions as Douglas Adams once famously put it, these are stories about Life, the Universe, and Everything. ![]() Mainstream science fiction is a genre that thrives on quantity as much as quality. ![]()
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