Ted Chiang

Person · Open Library

Born

1967

Works

19

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Film & TV

Writing · Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, USA

Known for

• A Brief History of Time Travel — Self2019
• Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' — Self2017

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

414

Total plays

1,864

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,971x

2. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

   · 2016 · cited 14,638x

3. <i>Planck</i> 2018 results

   · 2020 · cited 13,365x

4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,997x

5. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,801x

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Quotes

• “Centuries of their labor would not reveal to them any more of Creation than they already knew. Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed.”
• “The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.”
• “What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future. [...] Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.”
• “God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.”
• “Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.”
• “That wouldn’t be maturity; it would be letting an expert system make your decisions for you. Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut.”

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Key facts

Native name

姜峯楠

Born

1967 (age 58 – 59), Port Jefferson, New York , U.S.

Occupation

Fiction writer technical writer

Alma mater

Brown University ( BS )

Period

1990–present

Genre

Science fiction, fantasy

Notable works

‟ Tower of Babylon ” (1990), ‟ Story of Your Life ” (1998), ‟ Hell is the Absence of God ” (2001), Stories of Your Life and Others (2002), ‟ The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate ” (2007), Exhalation: Stories (2019)

Notable awards

See list

Traditional chinese

姜峯楠

Simplified chinese

姜峰楠

Hanyu pinyin

Jiāng Fēngnán

Bopomofo

ㄐㄧㄤㄈㄥㄋㄢˊ

Wade giles

Chiang Feng -nan

Ipa

[tɕja ́ ŋ fə ́ ŋna ̌ n]

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