Order of Ted Chiang Books

Order of Ted Chiang Books

Ted Chiang is a Chinese-American science ficiton writer. He is perhaps best known for his short story Stories of Your Life which became the hit film Arrival. That short story won both a Nebula Award and a Theodore Sturgeon Award after it’s release. He has written numerous other short stories and novellas that have been recognized for awards including the Nebula and Hugo Awards.

Both of Chiang’s parents were born in China. They immigrated to Taiwan and later the United States where Ted was born. Chiang then went to Brown University where he graduated with a computer science degree. He would work in the software industry as a technical writer while writing fiction on the side.

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Tower of Babylon

(1990)

Understand (in Asimov’s)

(1991)

Story of Your Life (in Stories of Your Life and Others)

(1998)

Seventy-Two Letters (in Vanishing Acts)

(2000)

Hell Is the Absence of God

(2001)

The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate

(2007)

The Lifecycle of Software Objects

(2010)

The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling

(2013)

The Great Silence

(2015)

Omphalos

(2019)

Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

(2019)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Stories of Your Life and Others / Arrival

(2002)

Exhalation

(2019)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, August 1991

(1991)

Starlight 2

(1998)

Year’s Best SF 4

(1999)

Vanishing Acts

(2000)

Nebula Awards 35 (2001)

(2001)

Starlight 3

(2001)

Supermen

(2002)

I premi Hugo 2002

(2003)

The Hard SF Renaissance

(2003)

The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels

(2005)

Year’s Best SF 11

(2006)

Feeling Very Strange

(2006)

The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1

(2007)

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy

(2008)

The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21

(2008)

Twenty-First Annual Collection

(2008)

Year’s Best SF 14

(2009)

Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012

(2012)

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2016

(2016)

Lightspeed Magazine, July 2016

(2016)

Edited By

(2020)

Nebula Awards Showcase 55

(2021)