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An Interview with Ted Chiang - Believer Magazine

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“THESE ISSUES ARE NOT PURELY ABSTRACT OR INTELLECTUAL, AND SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OFFER A WAY TO MAKE YOU GENUINELY INVESTED IN THE OUTCOME OF A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT.” “THESE ISSUES ARE NOT PURELY ABSTRACT OR INTELLECTUAL, AND SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OFFER A WAY TO MAKE YOU GENUINELY INVESTED IN THE OUTCOME OF A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT.” “I write short stories at very long intervals,” Ted Chiang stresses to me, thrice, during our initial conversation. “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. “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. Readers have been listening. Despite having publish

interviews December 2nd, 2019 | Issue one hundred twenty-eight An Interview with Ted Chiang “THESE ISSUES ARE NOT PURELY ABSTRACT OR INTELLECTUAL, AND SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OFFER A WAY TO MAKE YOU GENUINELY INVESTED IN THE OUTCOME OF A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT.” by James Yeh Illustration by Tony Millionaire Share Share via Facebook Share via Twitter Copy link to clipboard Share via text message December 2nd, 2019 An Interview with Ted Chiang “THESE ISSUES ARE NOT PURELY ABSTRACT OR INTELLECTUAL, AND SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OFFER A WAY TO MAKE YOU GENUINELY INVESTED IN THE OUTCOME OF A THOUGHT EXPE

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