supercheesegirl

This book was fantastic. Ted Chiang is the best kind of science fiction writer: he explores actual science concepts in his fiction while still delivering stories that carry deep emotional impact. The reader isn't overwhelmed or frustrated by the science; you just want to know more, and read more carefully so you can better understand. (I think I just said that Ted Chiang makes me a better reader. Well, I think that's a fair thing to say.) Some of these stories completely blew my mind and shocked me; one of these stories made me sob for ten minutes. All of these stories made me think. Highly, highly recommended.

(Note: Tagging as "hugo" because one of these stories, "Hell Is the Absence of God", won a Hugo Award for best novelette. It was my least favorite story in the collection, but still. He also won a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon", which is one of the stories that completely blew my mind.)