Free Speculative Fiction Online: Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang

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Winner of 3 Hugos (and nominated for 5 more).

Winner of 4 Nebulas.

Nominated for one World Fantasy Award.

(These numbers refer to awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story only!)

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Award-winning fiction:

Tower of Babylon (Omni, November 1990)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1991.
Nebula for Best Novelette 1990.

Not freely available online!

Story of Your Life (Starlight Anthology #2, 1998)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 1999.
Nebula for Best Novella 1999.

Not freely available online!

Hell Is the Absence of God (Starlight Anthology #3, 2001)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2002.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2002.
Notes:

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (F & SF, July 2007)
Hugo for Best Novelette 2008.
Nebula for Best Novelette 2007.
Reviews: Notes:

Recommended!

Exhalation (Eclipse Anthology #2, 2008)
Alternate link.
Alternate link.
Hugo for Best Short Story 2009.
Notes:
On the 2008 BSFA Awards Shortlist. Another audio link.

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Award-nominated fiction:

Understand (Asimov's, August 1991)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 1992.
Notes:

Recommended!

Seventy-Two Letters (Vanishing Acts Anthology, 2000)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2001.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2001.

Not freely available online!

Liking What You See: A Documentary (Stories of Your Life and Others Collection, 2002)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2003.
Hugo nomination declined.

Not freely available online!

Other fiction online:

Division by Zero (Full Spectrum Anthology #3, 1991)
Notes:

Recommended!

What's Expected of Us (Nature, July 2005)
Alternate link.
Available as part of this magazine.
Notes:
Unlisted on the StarShipSofa ToC, but it's in the podcast!

Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.