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Ted Chiang Books in Order
Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer, known professionally as Chiang Feng-nan in Chinese. A computer science graduate of Brown University, he balances his writing career with work as a technical writer in the software industry. Based in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington, Chiang has established himself as a critically acclaimed author through his involvement in the esteemed Clarion Writers Workshop (1989). Despite his relatively modest output, having published only a handful of short stories, Chiang's works have garnered widespread recognition and numerous prestigious awards. Notable wins include the Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990), the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992, and multiple Hugo Awards for "Hell Is the Absence of God" (2002), "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007), and "Exhalation" (2009).
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Ted Chiang's book series? Ted Chiang has written 2 book series. The most notable is the Ted Chiang series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Ted Chiang
- #1
Tower of Babylon(1990) - #2
Understand (in Asimov's)(1991) - #3
Story of Your Life (in Stories of Your Life and Others)(1998) - #4
Seventy-Two Letters (in Vanishing Acts)(2000) - #5
Hell Is the Absence of God(2001) - #6The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate(2007)
- #7
The Lifecycle of Software Objects(2010) - #8
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling(2013) - #9The Great Silence(2015)
- #10
Omphalos(2019) - #11Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom(2019)
- #12Stories of Your Life and Others / Arrival(2002)
- #13Exhalation(2019)
- #1
Year's Best SF(1996) - #2
Year's Best SF 2(1997) - #3
Year's Best SF 3(1998) - #4
Year's Best SF 4(1999) - #5
Year's Best SF 5(2000) - #6
Year's Best SF 6(2001) - #7
Year's Best SF 7(2002) - #8
Year's Best SF 8(2003) - #9
Year's Best SF 9(2004) - #10
Year's Best SF 10(2005) - #11Year's Best SF 11(2006)
- #12
Year's Best SF 12(2007) - #13
Year's Best SF 13(2008) - #14Year's Best SF 14(2009)
- #15
Year's Best SF 15(2010) - #16
Year's Best SF 16(2011) - #17
Year's Best SF 17(2012) - #18
Year's Best SF 18(2013) - #19Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1991(1991)
- #20
Starlight 2(1998) - #21Vanishing Acts(2000)
- #22
Nebula Awards 35 (2001)(2001) - #23
Starlight 3(2001) - #24
Supermen(2002) - #25
I premi Hugo 2002(2003) - #26
The Hard SF Renaissance(2003) - #27The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels(2005)
- #28Feeling Very Strange(2006)
- #29The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1(2007)
- #30
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy(2008) - #31
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21(2008) - #32
Twenty-First Annual Collection(2008) - #33
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities(2011) - #34
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012(2012) - #35
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2016(2016) - #36
Lightspeed Magazine, July 2016(2016) - #37
Edited By(2020) - #38
Nebula Awards Showcase 55(2021)
About Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer, known professionally as Chiang Feng-nan in Chinese. A computer science graduate of Brown University, he balances his writing career with work as a technical writer in the software industry. Based in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington, Chiang has established himself as a critically acclaimed author through his involvement in the esteemed Clarion Writers Workshop (1989). Despite his relatively modest output, having published only a handful of short stories, Chiang's works have garnered widespread recognition and numerous prestigious awards. Notable wins include the Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990), the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992, and multiple Hugo Awards for "Hell Is the Absence of God" (2002), "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007), and "Exhalation" (2009).
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