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Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these . These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the work by Ted Chiang. I cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, they are so wide ranging in their themes and so beautifully written, Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a collection. If you come across Chiang's work before, take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.
This book is a compilation of nine of Chiang's short stories. Some are super-short, only a few pages long, whilst others last for several chapters. None are related, all have a different feel, time, sense, and flavour and that richness is what makes this book so interesting. I enjoyed this book immensely, Chiang includes his short stories first, and then afterwards he includes his author's story notes. This was fascinating. Personally, I chose to read the book as laid out. I read the stories, none of which I had read before, and then I read his notes, which added an extra layer of depth, after. I decided to do this so I would not spoil any impressions I may have had myself whist reading the book as a whole, but if you chose to you could quite easily skip back and forth and answer any questions about a short whist you are going along.
