It has recently come to my attention that, to date, there does not exist a clear online ranking of every Ted Chiang story ever written.
You’ll find the occasional partially-ordered tier list, of course, or the passing Top 5 list, and some might even come close but no list that includes every story he has published, and orders them completely. Not only are currently existing rankings incomplete, but worse many of them are (in my opinion) wildly incorrect. This seems, to me, a massive gap in the collective knowledge of humanity and I’ve taken it upon myself to fill that gap. What follows, then, is
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This blog comments on a variety of technology news, trends, and products and how they connect. I m in Red Hat s cloud product strategy group in my day job although I cover a broader set of topics here. This is a personal blog; the opinions are mine alone.
Sunday, October 25, 2020
This is an update to 50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels. It s mostly an addition of 30 more authors (many from outside the big SF names ) but I also made some other tweaks.
I ve been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories while also seeing if there s anything that has managed to elude me over the years. I ve also tried to catch up with more recent authors given that I don t read as many books as I used to. (The market for science fiction short stories, in general, is in something of a decline but there are still some fabulous recent stories out there.)