Ted Chiang is the greatest living science fiction short story writer I'm aware of, and ranks highly on my all time list.

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Darkphibre 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

His short story "Understand" is just... amazing.

It wasn't until I discovered I was on the spectrum that I realized why it clicked so much. >.< I'm masking all the time, running conversational simulations to anticipate the societally-expected response to any given situation (and am high on the IQ spectrum).

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riffraff 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have only read a few stories by Ted Chiang, but I concur, they were all fantastic.

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jperoutek 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I second this. Exhalation for some reason really resonates with me.

	▲	Froztnova 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exhalation is really excellent. It's not really sci-fi but I also really enjoyed The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate, and the one about the tower of babel, I forget the name at the moment.