Ted Chiang

Tower of Babylon

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A Vintage Shorts Short Story Month Selection Together with a crew of other miners and cart-pullers, Hillalum is recruited to climb the Tower of Babylon and unearth what lies beyond the vault of heaven. During his journey, Hillalum discovers entire civilizations of tower-dwellers on the tower-there are those who live inside the mists of clouds, those who raise their vegetables above the sun, and those who have spent their lives under the oppressive weight of an endless, white stratum at the top of the universe. Tower of Babylon is a rare gem-a winner of the prestigious Nebula award, the first story Ted Chiang ever published, and the brilli… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-101-97442-1
EAN: 9781101974421
Produktnummer: 19781349
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 32 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'352 KB

Über den Autor

Ted Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and holds a degree in computer science. In 1989 he attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Workshop. His fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards, and he is the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Stories of Your Life and Others has been translated into ten languages. He lives near Seattle, Washington.