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Exhalation: Stories

✍ Scribed by Ted Chiang

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 269 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

"Lean, relentless, and incandescent." **-- Colson Whitehead
From the acclaimed author of _Stories of Your Life and Others --_the basis for the Academy Award -nominated film Arrival : a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction.
"THE UNIVERSE BEGAN AS AN ENORMOUS BREATH BEING HELD."
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In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity's oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.
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