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	{{Short description\|American science fiction writer (born 1967)}}		{{Short description\|American science fiction writer (born 1967)}}
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	\| name = Ted Chiang		\| name = Ted Chiang
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	After attending and graduating from the [[Clarion Workshop]] in 1989 Chiang sold his first story, "The Tower of Babylon", to [[Omni (magazine)\|''Omni'']] magazine,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web \|last=McCarron \|first=Meghan \|date=July 18, 2016 \|title=The Legendary Ted Chiang on Seeing His Stories Adapted and the Ever-Expanding Popularity of SF \|url=https://electricliterature.com/the-legendary-ted-chiang-on-seeing-his-stories-adapted-and-the-ever-expanding-popularity-of-sf/ \|website=[[Electric Literature]]}}</ref> and was awarded a Nebula Award for it in 1990.<ref name=":2" /> His later stories have won numerous other awards, making him one of the most-honored writers in contemporary [[science fiction]]. Chiang's first short story collection, ''[[Stories of Your Life and Others]]'' (2002) was published in 2002 by [[Tor Books]] and comprises his first eight stories. The collection was reprinted in 2016 as ''Arrival'' to coincide with the adaptation of "[[Story of Your Life]]" as the film [[Arrival (film)\|''Arrival'']].<ref>{{cite web \|title=ARRIVAL (STORIES OF YOUR LIFE MTI) \|url=https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/arrival-stories-of-your-life/9780525433675-item.html?ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0 \|access-date=30 November 2016 \|website=Chapters-Indigo}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|author=Ted Chiang \|url=https://archive.org/details/storiesofyourlif0000chia \|title=Arrival: originally published as – Stories Of Your Life And Others \|publisher=Doubleday \|year=2016 \|isbn=978-0525433675 \|url-access=registration}}</ref>		After attending and graduating from the [[Clarion Workshop]] in 1989 Chiang sold his first story, "The Tower of Babylon", to [[Omni (magazine)\|''Omni'']] magazine,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web \|last=McCarron \|first=Meghan \|date=July 18, 2016 \|title=The Legendary Ted Chiang on Seeing His Stories Adapted and the Ever-Expanding Popularity of SF \|url=https://electricliterature.com/the-legendary-ted-chiang-on-seeing-his-stories-adapted-and-the-ever-expanding-popularity-of-sf/ \|website=[[Electric Literature]]}}</ref> and was awarded a Nebula Award for it in 1990.<ref name=":2" /> His later stories have won numerous other awards, making him one of the most-honored writers in contemporary [[science fiction]]. Chiang's first short story collection, ''[[Stories of Your Life and Others]]'' (2002) was published in 2002 by [[Tor Books]] and comprises his first eight stories. The collection was reprinted in 2016 as ''Arrival'' to coincide with the adaptation of "[[Story of Your Life]]" as the film [[Arrival (film)\|''Arrival'']].<ref>{{cite web \|title=ARRIVAL (STORIES OF YOUR LIFE MTI) \|url=https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/arrival-stories-of-your-life/9780525433675-item.html?ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0 \|access-date=30 November 2016 \|website=Chapters-Indigo}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|author=Ted Chiang \|url=https://archive.org/details/storiesofyourlif0000chia \|title=Arrival: originally published as – Stories Of Your Life And Others \|publisher=Doubleday \|year=2016 \|isbn=978-0525433675 \|url-access=registration}}</ref>

	{{As of\|2002\|July}}, Chiang was working as a [[technical writer]] in the software industry and resided in [[Bellevue, Washington]], near [[Seattle]].<ref>{{cite web \|url = http://www.sfsite.com/09b/tc136.htm \|title = An Interview with Ted Chiang \|date=July 2002 \|work = [[SF Site]] \|access-date = October 4, 2012 }}</ref> He was an instructor at the Clarion Workshop at [[University of California, San Diego\|UC San Diego]] in 2012 and 2016.<ref>{{cite web \|url = http://clarion.ucsd.edu/graduates.html \|title = Clarion at UC San Diego Graduates and Instructors \|website = Clarion \|access-date = December 9, 2016 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080427024654/http://clarion.ucsd.edu/graduates.html \|archive-date = April 27, 2008 \|url-status = dead}}</ref>		{{As of\|2002\|July}}, Chiang was working as a [[technical writer]] in the software industry and resided in [[Bellevue, Washington]], near [[Seattle]].<ref>{{cite web \|url = http://www.sfsite.com/09b/tc136.htm \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030217045404/http://www.sfsite.com/09b/tc136.htm \|url-status = dead \|archive-date = February 17, 2003 \|title = An Interview with Ted Chiang \|date=July 2002 \|work = [[SF Site]] \|access-date = October 4, 2012 }}</ref> He was an instructor at the Clarion Workshop at [[University of California, San Diego\|UC San Diego]] in 2012 and 2016.<ref>{{cite web \|url = http://clarion.ucsd.edu/graduates.html \|title = Clarion at UC San Diego Graduates and Instructors \|website = Clarion \|access-date = December 9, 2016 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080427024654/http://clarion.ucsd.edu/graduates.html \|archive-date = April 27, 2008 \|url-status = dead}}</ref>

	Chiang's second short story collection, ''[[Exhalation: Stories]]'' was published in May 2019 by [[Alfred A. Knopf]].<ref>{{cite web \|title=Exhalation: Stories \|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-101-94788-3 \|access-date= \|website=[[Publishers Weekly]]}}</ref> Chiang has published eighteen short stories, novelettes, and novellas {{as of\|2019\|lc=y\|post=.}} In 2022, Chiang became a Miller Scholar in the [[Santa Fe Institute]].<ref>{{cite web \|date=30 January 2023 \|title=Ted Chiang joins SFI Miller Scholars {{!}} Santa Fe Institute \|url=https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/ted-chiang-joins-sfi-miller-scholars \|access-date=18 June 2023 \|website=www.santafe.edu \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal \|date=2023 \|title=Ted Chiang. Macrocosm in Miniature \|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d420e5d999d0200013d33c3/t/63f3a38820595b0cb296b4af/1676911513008/Extraterritorial-Winter_2023.pdf \|journal=Extraterritorial \|publisher=SFI Press \|volume=2 \|access-date=18 June 2023}}</ref>		Chiang's second short story collection, ''[[Exhalation: Stories]]'' was published in May 2019 by [[Alfred A. Knopf]].<ref>{{cite web \|title=Exhalation: Stories \|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-101-94788-3 \|access-date= \|website=[[Publishers Weekly]]}}</ref> Chiang has published eighteen short stories, novelettes, and novellas {{as of\|2019\|lc=y\|post=.}} In 2022, Chiang became a Miller Scholar in the [[Santa Fe Institute]].<ref>{{cite web \|date=30 January 2023 \|title=Ted Chiang joins SFI Miller Scholars {{!}} Santa Fe Institute \|url=https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/ted-chiang-joins-sfi-miller-scholars \|access-date=18 June 2023 \|website=www.santafe.edu \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal \|date=2023 \|title=Ted Chiang. Macrocosm in Miniature \|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d420e5d999d0200013d33c3/t/63f3a38820595b0cb296b4af/1676911513008/Extraterritorial-Winter_2023.pdf \|journal=Extraterritorial \|publisher=SFI Press \|volume=2 \|access-date=18 June 2023}}</ref>
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	Former US president [[Barack Obama]] included Chiang's short story collection ''Exhalation'' in his 2019 reading list, praising it as the "best kind of science fiction".<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Brady \|first=Amy \|date=2019-08-20 \|title=Barack Obama's 2019 Summer Reading List \|url=https://chireviewofbooks.com/2019/08/20/barack-obamas-2019-summer-reading-list/ \|access-date=2023-05-26 \|website=Chicago Review of Books \|language=en-US}}</ref>		Former US president [[Barack Obama]] included Chiang's short story collection ''Exhalation'' in his 2019 reading list, praising it as the "best kind of science fiction".<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Brady \|first=Amy \|date=2019-08-20 \|title=Barack Obama's 2019 Summer Reading List \|url=https://chireviewofbooks.com/2019/08/20/barack-obamas-2019-summer-reading-list/ \|access-date=2023-05-26 \|website=Chicago Review of Books \|language=en-US}}</ref>

	Chiang has commented on "[[metacognition]], or thinking about one’s own thinking" being something most humans, but neither animals nor current [[AI]], are capable of, and that capitalism erodes the capacity for this insight, especially for tech company executives.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway \|title=Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear \|website=BuzzFeed News \|date=December 18, 2017 \|language=en \|access-date=May 6, 2019}}</ref>

	===Awards===		===Awards===

	Ted Chiang has won or been nominated for several awards for several of his works.		Ted Chiang has won or been nominated for several awards for several of his works.

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	* ''Introduction to "Particle Theory"'', [[Strange Horizons]], October 31, 2011<ref>{{Cite web \|last=words \|first=Ted Chiang Issue: 31 October 2011 289 \|date=2011-10-31 \|title=Introduction to "Particle Theory" \|url=http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/introduction-to-particle-theory/ \|access-date=2023-05-11 \|website=Strange Horizons \|language=en}}</ref>		* ''Introduction to "Particle Theory"'', [[Strange Horizons]], October 31, 2011<ref>{{Cite web \|last=words \|first=Ted Chiang Issue: 31 October 2011 289 \|date=2011-10-31 \|title=Introduction to "Particle Theory" \|url=http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/introduction-to-particle-theory/ \|access-date=2023-05-11 \|website=Strange Horizons \|language=en}}</ref>
	* ''Bad Character'', [[The New Yorker]], May 9, 2016<ref>{{Cite magazine \|date=2016-05-09 \|title=If Chinese Were Phonetic \|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/if-chinese-were-phonetic \|access-date=2023-05-11 \|magazine=The New Yorker \|language=en-US}}</ref>		* ''Bad Character'', [[The New Yorker]], May 9, 2016<ref>{{Cite magazine \|date=2016-05-09 \|title=If Chinese Were Phonetic \|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/if-chinese-were-phonetic \|access-date=2023-05-11 \|magazine=The New Yorker \|language=en-US}}</ref>
	* ''Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear'', [[~~Buzzfeed~~]], December 18, 2017<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Chiang \|first=Ted \|date=2017-12-18 \|title=Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear \|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway \|access-date=2023-06-04 \|website=BuzzFeed News \|language=en}}</ref>		* ''Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear'', [[BuzzFeed]], December 18, 2017<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Chiang \|first=Ted \|date=2017-12-18 \|title=Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear \|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway \|access-date=2023-06-04 \|website=BuzzFeed News \|language=en}}</ref>
	* ''What If Parents Loved Strangers’ Children As Much As Their Own?'', [[The New Yorker]], December 31, 2017<ref>{{Cite magazine \|date=2017-12-31 \|title=What If Parents Loved Strangers' Children As Much As Their Own? \|url=https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-if-parents-loved-strangers-children-as-much-as-their-own \|access-date=2023-05-11 \|magazine=The New Yorker \|language=en-US}}</ref>		* ''What If Parents Loved Strangers’ Children As Much As Their Own?'', [[The New Yorker]], December 31, 2017<ref>{{Cite magazine \|date=2017-12-31 \|title=What If Parents Loved Strangers' Children As Much As Their Own? \|url=https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-if-parents-loved-strangers-children-as-much-as-their-own \|access-date=2023-05-11 \|magazine=The New Yorker \|language=en-US}}</ref>
	* ''Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', March 30, 2021<ref>{{cite magazine \|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-computers-wont-make-themselves-smarter \|title=Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter \|magazine=[[The New Yorker]] \|date=March 30, 2021 \|first=Ted \|last=Chiang}}</ref>		* ''Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', March 30, 2021<ref>{{cite magazine \|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-computers-wont-make-themselves-smarter \|title=Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter \|magazine=[[The New Yorker]] \|date=March 30, 2021 \|first=Ted \|last=Chiang}}</ref>
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	=== Philosophy ===		=== Philosophy ===
	* {{Cite book \|url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-81662-8 \|doi=10.1007/978-3-031-81662-8 \|title=The Philosophy of Ted Chiang \|date=2025 \|isbn=978-3-031-81661-1 \|editor-last1=Friedell \|editor-first1=David }}		* {{Cite book \|url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-81662-8 \|doi=10.1007/978-3-031-81662-8 \|title=The Philosophy of Ted Chiang \|date=2025 \|isbn=978-3-031-81661-1 \|editor-last1=Friedell \|editor-first1=David }}
	** {{Cite web \|url=https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/book-review-the-philosophy-of-ted-chiang \|title=Book review: The Philosophy of Ted Chiang \| Santa Fe Institute }}		** {{Cite web \|url=https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/book-review-the-philosophy-of-ted-chiang \|title=Book review: The Philosophy of Ted Chiang \| Santa Fe Institute \|date=June 23, 2025 }}

	===Film===		===Film===
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	* [https://medium.com/learning-for-life/694cb3c80d13 Interview] conducted by Avi Solomon		* [https://medium.com/learning-for-life/694cb3c80d13 Interview] conducted by Avi Solomon
	* [~~http~~://web.archive.org/web/20090201181656/http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/interview/ted_chiang/ Interview] conducted by Al Robertson		* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090201181656/http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/interview/ted_chiang/ Interview] conducted by Al Robertson
	* [http://www.sfsite.com/09b/tc136.htm Interview] conducted by Lou Anders		* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030217045404/http://www.sfsite.com/09b/tc136.htm Interview] conducted by Lou Anders
	* [https://archive.today/20130415004143/http://www.indiebound.org/author-interviews/chiangted Interview] conducted by Gavin J. Grant		* [https://archive.today/20130415004143/http://www.indiebound.org/author-interviews/chiangted Interview] conducted by Gavin J. Grant
	* [https://www.thebeliever.net/an-interview-with-ted-chiang/ Interview] conducted by James Yeh		* [https://www.thebeliever.net/an-interview-with-ted-chiang/ Interview] conducted by James Yeh
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	* ''Ted Chiang on the Future'', [[MoMA PS1]], July 8, 2013<ref>{{Citation \|title=Ted Chiang on the Future \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_632pic1PlU \|access-date=2023-05-11 \|language=en}}</ref>		* ''Ted Chiang on the Future'', [[MoMA PS1]], July 8, 2013<ref>{{Citation \|title=Ted Chiang on the Future \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_632pic1PlU \|access-date=2023-05-11 \|language=en}}</ref>
	* ''Imaginary Science and Magic in Fiction'', [[University of Notre Dame\|Notre Dame]] Technology Ethics Center, November 2020<ref>{{Citation \|title=Ted Chiang "Imaginary Science and Magic in Fiction" \| date=February 24, 2021 \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj6iewy8Ujk \|access-date=2023-05-11 \|language=en}}</ref>		* ''Imaginary Science and Magic in Fiction'', [[University of Notre Dame\|Notre Dame]] Technology Ethics Center, November 2020<ref>{{Citation \|title=Ted Chiang "Imaginary Science and Magic in Fiction" \| date=February 24, 2021 \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj6iewy8Ujk \|access-date=2023-05-11 \|language=en}}</ref>

			=== Philosophy ===
			* {{Cite book \|url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-81662-8 \|doi=10.1007/978-3-031-81662-8 \|title=The Philosophy of Ted Chiang \|date=2025 \|isbn=978-3-031-81661-1 \|editor-last1=Friedell \|editor-first1=David }}
			** {{Cite web \|url=https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/book-review-the-philosophy-of-ted-chiang \|title=Book review: The Philosophy of Ted Chiang \| Santa Fe Institute }}

	===Film===		===Film===

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	Ted Chiang was born in 1967 to a [[Taiwanese American]] family in [[Port Jefferson, New York]].<ref>{{cite web \|url = http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Ted_Chiang \|title = Ted Chiang \| type = Summary Bibliography \|work = Internet Speculative Fiction Database \|access-date = October 4, 2012}}</ref> His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan ({{lang\|zh\|姜峯楠}}; {{Transliteration\|cmn\|Jiāng Fēngnán}}).<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Klein \|first=Ezra \|author-link=Ezra Klein \|date=2023-03-03 \|title=人工智能真正的恐怖之处 \|trans-title=The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About \|url=https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20230301/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence/ \|access-date=2025-02-14 \|website=[[The New York Times]] \|language=zh-cmn-hans}} Translated from [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opinion/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence.html The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About].</ref> Both of his parents are Taiwanese ''[[waishengren]]'' who were born in [[mainland China]] and migrated to Taiwan with their families during the [[retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan]] before immigrating to the United States.<ref name=":2">{{cite magazine \|url= http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction \|title= Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction \|last=Rothman \|first= Joshua \|magazine= [[The New Yorker]] \|date= January 5, 2017 \|access-date= January 7, 2017}}</ref> His father, Fu-pen Chiang, is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at [[Stony Brook University]].<ref>{{Cite journal\| url= https://post45.org/2014/11/melancholy-transcendence-ted-chiang-and-asian-american-postracial-form/\|title = Melancholy Transcendence: Ted Chiang and Asian American Postracial Form\|journal = Post45 \|date = November 5, 2014\|last1 = Fan\|first1 = Christopher T.}}</ref> His mother ({{Abbr\|d.\|Died}} 2019) was a librarian.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news \|last1=Yeh \|first1=James \|last2=Millionaire \|first2=Tony \|date=2019-12-02 \|title=An Interview with Ted Chiang \|url=https://www.thebeliever.net/an-interview-with-ted-chiang/ \|access-date=2023-05-26 \|website=[[The Believer (magazine)\|The Believer]] \|language=en-US \|issue=128}}</ref> Chiang also has a sister who is a physician.<ref name=":3" />		Ted Chiang was born in 1967 to a [[Taiwanese American]] family in [[Port Jefferson, New York]].<ref>{{cite web \|url = http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Ted_Chiang \|title = Ted Chiang \| type = Summary Bibliography \|work = Internet Speculative Fiction Database \|access-date = October 4, 2012}}</ref> His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan ({{lang\|zh\|姜峯楠}}; {{Transliteration\|cmn\|Jiāng Fēngnán}}).<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Klein \|first=Ezra \|author-link=Ezra Klein \|date=2023-03-03 \|title=人工智能真正的恐怖之处 \|trans-title=The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About \|url=https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20230301/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence/ \|access-date=2025-02-14 \|website=[[The New York Times]] \|language=zh-cmn-hans}} Translated from [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opinion/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence.html The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About].</ref> Both of his parents are Taiwanese ''[[waishengren]]'' who were born in [[mainland China]] and migrated to Taiwan with their families during the [[retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan]] before immigrating to the United States.<ref name=":2">{{cite magazine \|url= http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction \|title= Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction \|last=Rothman \|first= Joshua \|magazine= [[The New Yorker]] \|date= January 5, 2017 \|access-date= January 7, 2017}}</ref> His father, Fu-pen Chiang, is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at [[Stony Brook University]].<ref>{{Cite journal\| url= https://post45.org/2014/11/melancholy-transcendence-ted-chiang-and-asian-american-postracial-form/\|title = Melancholy Transcendence: Ted Chiang and Asian American Postracial Form\|journal = Post45 \|date = November 5, 2014\|last1 = Fan\|first1 = Christopher T.}}</ref> His mother ({{Abbr\|d.\|Died}} 2019) was a librarian.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news \|last1=Yeh \|first1=James \|last2=Millionaire \|first2=Tony \|date=2019-12-02 \|title=An Interview with Ted Chiang \|url=https://www.thebeliever.net/an-interview-with-ted-chiang/ \|access-date=2023-05-26 \|website=[[The Believer (magazine)\|The Believer]] \|language=en-US \|issue=128}}</ref> Chiang also has a sister who is a physician.<ref name=":3" />

	Chiang grew up in [[Long Island]] and, at age 15, began submitting [[science fiction]] stories to magazines.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web \|last=Clark \|first=Taylor \|date=2015-01-04 \|title=The Perfectionist \|url=https://story.californiasunday.com/ted-chiang-scifi-perfectionist/ \|access-date=2025-02-14 \|website=[[The California Sunday Magazine]] \|language=en}}</ref> He later recalled, "When I was a kid, my intention was to become a physicist. That was a perfectly respectable career choice for the son of an engineer. I figured I would be a fiction writer on the side, and that, I think, is perfectly acceptable to Asian parents".<ref name=":3" /> In 1989, he graduated from [[Brown University]] with a [[Bachelor of Science]] (B.S.) degree after choosing to study [[computer science]] over physics.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2002 \|title=Ted Chiang interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction \|url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/inttchiang.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201225629/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/inttchiang.htm \|archive-date=2022-12-01 \|access-date=2023-05-26 \|website=[[Infinity Plus]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Smith \|first=Andy \|date=2020 \|title=Alien Worlds: A new book of short stories from award-winning author Ted Chiang '89 \|url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2020-01-03/alien-worlds \|access-date=2023-05-26 \|website=[[Brown Alumni Magazine]] \|language=en}}</ref> As an undergraduate, Chiang continued to write sci-fi stories, though they were ultimately unpublished.<ref name=":4" />		Chiang grew up on [[Long Island]] and, at age 15, began submitting [[science fiction]] stories to magazines.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web \|last=Clark \|first=Taylor \|date=2015-01-04 \|title=The Perfectionist \|url=https://story.californiasunday.com/ted-chiang-scifi-perfectionist/ \|access-date=2025-02-14 \|website=[[The California Sunday Magazine]] \|language=en}}</ref> He later recalled, "When I was a kid, my intention was to become a physicist. That was a perfectly respectable career choice for the son of an engineer. I figured I would be a fiction writer on the side, and that, I think, is perfectly acceptable to Asian parents".<ref name=":3" /> In 1989, he graduated from [[Brown University]] with a [[Bachelor of Science]] (B.S.) degree after choosing to study [[computer science]] over physics.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2002 \|title=Ted Chiang interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction \|url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/inttchiang.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201225629/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/inttchiang.htm \|archive-date=2022-12-01 \|access-date=2023-05-26 \|website=[[Infinity Plus]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Smith \|first=Andy \|date=2020 \|title=Alien Worlds: A new book of short stories from award-winning author Ted Chiang '89 \|url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2020-01-03/alien-worlds \|access-date=2023-05-26 \|website=[[Brown Alumni Magazine]] \|language=en}}</ref> As an undergraduate, Chiang continued to write sci-fi stories, though they were ultimately unpublished.<ref name=":4" />

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