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I just finished re-reading Understand, by Ted Chiang
It's a short scifi story. It has similar themes to Flowers for Algernon.

Here's the link if you want to read it for yourself:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060101043301/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm

I've also added it to my list of curios:
https://lzon.ca/curios

#SciFi #TedChiang #ShortStories #Bibliophile #ReadingList #Curios

I just finished re-reading Understand, by Ted Chiang
It's a short scifi story. It has similar themes to Flowers for Algernon.

Here's the link if you want to read it for yourself:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060101043301/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm

I've also added it to my list of curios:
https://lzon.ca/curios

#SciFi #TedChiang #ShortStories #Bibliophile #ReadingList #Curios

Durante la 25esima edizione del Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, l’Inaf ha deciso di premiare Chiang con l’Event Horizon Award 2025, riconoscendo la sua straordinaria capacità di trasformare concetti scientifici complessi in narrazioni capaci di emozionare e far riflettere.

https://www.media.inaf.it/2025/10/31/trieste-sciencefiction-festival-ted-chiang-arrival/

#inaf #trieste #scienceandfictionfestival #eventhorizonaward #tedchiang #fantascienza #letteratura #libri #scienza #storiedellatuavita #storiadellatuavita #arrival

Dopo aver letto qualche anno fa "Storie della tua vita", sto leggendo ora "Respiro". #TedChiang è uno scrittore meraviglioso, con una non comune capacità di immaginare e raccontare storie, che utilizza la #fantascienza come i grandi, da #Asimov a #Lem (passando per #Dick): non un circo di astronavi, alieni e tecnologia futuristica più o meno verosimile, ma come allegoria per affrontare temi profondi, umanissimi e comuni della vita di ciascuno. Consigliatissimo.

#libri #UnoLibri #leggere

🤔🚀 Ah, another intellectual fanboy deep dive where the author proves they've read Ted Chiang's stories more than Ted himself—and still manages to miss the "secret third thing." 📚🔍 Instead of unlocking any cosmic secrets, we get a tedious over-analysis that's as enlightening as a broken lightbulb. 🌟💡
https://linch.substack.com/p/ted-chiang-review #intellectualfanboy #overanalysis #TedChiang #cosmicsecrets #brokenlightbulb #HackerNews #ngated

Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing

https://linch.substack.com/p/ted-chiang-review

#HackerNews #TedChiang #SecretThirdThing #Literature #Review #ScienceFiction #Substack

@wackJackle @larsweisbrod Letztens LesenswertQuartett-Sendung gesehen, wo alle voll Probleme mit #TedChiang-Kurzgeschichten hatten, außer Fanboi #DenisScheck.
Es gilt immer noch der #SamuelR Delany-Aufsatz »Einige überhebliche Arten sich der SF zu nähern« (1984; Dt. Alaska 233, 1998; HR-Telekolleg/Fischer-TB 2007). Unis und Mainstream-Literaturbetrieb sind voller Leuz, die keine SF lesen oder verstehen, weil ihnen die entsprechende Bildung fehlt (ab 42:16). Großes Kino.
https://youtu.be/bTmhAADxQPM

@jens

(13/n)

...#AlisonGopnik & #TedChiang
This episode [of the pod #HumanCentered] is produced in
association with the #CASBS
project "The Social Science of
Caregiving," and draws further inspiration from the CASBS project "Imagining Adaptive Societies."

In any event, the two are onto something regarding the next quantum leap in #AI development, embodiment**, even coupled with caregiving:

https://i.sonnet.fm/wxQ2SMqVSRUPKLUM9

**
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110318127194931631

*Thread continues here:*

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110318055143729658

I wanted to post about books! I love optimistic #scifi, and some #fantasy, #historicalFiction, and #detectiveFiction. Favourite authors that occur to me include: #IainMBanks, #BeckyChambers, #LordDunsany, #TedChiang, #AdrianTchaikovsky, #RobertHarris, #HGWells, #GKChesterton, #AgathaChristie, #DorothyLSayers, #MargaretWeiss and #TracyHickman, and of course #Tolkien, who I still maintain is under-appreciated. I’m keen to discover new favourites - especially if they can diversify the list a bit.