"Hell Is the Absence of God" is a 2001 fantasy novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in Starlight #3, and subsequently reprinted in...
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winner) "The Evolution of Human Science" (originally published as "Catching Crumbs from the Table" in Nature, June 2000) "Hell Is the Absence of God" (originally...
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Ted Chiang (category American writers of Taiwanese descent)
Hugo Award for his novelette "Hell Is the Absence of God" (2002); a Locus Award for his short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others (2003);...
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Novelette: "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold 2003/2002 Novelette: "Hell Is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang 2006/2005 Novelette: "The Faery Handbag"...
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Arrival (film) (redirect from The Arrival (2016 film))
discovers that the symbol for time is present throughout the message and that the writing occupies exactly one-twelfth of the 3D space into which it is projected...
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Exhalation: Stories (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Stories is a collection of short stories by American writer Ted Chiang. The book was initially released on May 7, 2019, by Alfred A. Knopf. This is Ted Chiang's...
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Bloodchild and Other Stories (redirect from The Evening & the Morning & the Night)
the task from God seemingly impossible. Each person's utopia would be another person's hell due to the different wants and desires. Butler wrote "The...
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incorporating the common theological phrase "Hell is the absence of God," the name of the rock band mewithoutYou, the quote "Hell is only a word; the reality is much...
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Heptapod languages (redirect from The Heptapod Languages)
memory, due to the difficulty of remembering large numbers of pairs of subjects and predicates; the depth of center embedding is for the most part zero...
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Presentation. "Story of Your Life" is narrated by linguist Dr. Louise Banks the day her daughter is conceived. Addressed to her daughter, the story alternates...
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Octavia E. Butler (category Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees)
translator for the aliens now that the Earth's economy is in a deep depression. In "The Book of Martha", God asks a middle-aged African-American novelist to...
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Understand (story) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Goodreads. Retrieved 5 October 2015. Andreeva, Nellie (2024-06-04). "Denise Thé, Melissa Scrivner Love & Amanda Segel Ink Sony Pictures TV Deal, Set Projects...
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Isaac Asimov (redirect from Complete bibliography of books by Isaac Asimov)
deed is foul, foul, foul. The same memoir states his belief that Hell is "the drooling dream of a sadist" crudely affixed to an all-merciful God; if even...
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"The Bicentennial Man" is a novelette in the Robot series by American writer Isaac Asimov. According to the foreword in Robot Visions, Asimov was approached...
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Seventy-Two Letters (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
film Pi, in which a powerful computer is used to divine the 216-character name of God. "The Nine Billion Names of God", a 1953 story by British writer Arthur...
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George Alec Effinger (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Mark Twain, etc.), all set on the asteroid city of Springfield. "Niemand" is from the German word for "nobody", and the initial O was intended by Effinger...
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Liking What You See: A Documentary (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Documentary" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, published in the 2002 collection Stories of Your Life and Others. The novelette...
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Omphalos (story) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
is passionate that God intended humans to understand Him through science. From a meeting with her cousin, Dorothea believes that an illegal sale of museum...
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paradoxical absence of evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence. Irene Pepperberg, the animal cognition scientist whose work with the parrot, Alex, is referenced...
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"Tower of Babylon" is a science fantasy novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in 1990 by Omni. The story revisits the Tower of Babel...
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"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" is a fantasy novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, originally published in 2007 by Subterranean Press and reprinted...
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Ursula K. Le Guin (redirect from The Unreal and the Real)
relationships. Gethen was portrayed as a society without war, as a result of this absence of fixed gender characteristics, and also without sexuality as a continuous...
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before women were introduced, and that God is telling them to get rid of all of the women, and after that, God will either make everyone live forever...
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"What's Expected of Us" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published on 6 July 2005 by Nature. The story was also...
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Division by Zero (short story) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Full Spectrum 3 magazine and subsequently republished in the 2002 Ted Chiang collection Stories of Your Life and Others. Renee, an intellectually gifted...
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"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories...
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Roger Zelazny (category American people of Irish descent)
notably in the Amber novels: in the first Amber series, the protagonist Corwin searches for his lost, god-like father Oberon; while in the second series...
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"The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" is a science fiction story by American writer Ted Chiang. It was first published in 2013 in Subterranean Press...
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Poul Anderson (redirect from A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows)
returned to the United States after the beginning of World War II, settling eventually on a Minnesota farm. While he was an undergraduate student at the University...
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Connie Willis (redirect from Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis)
stand-up superstar of SF conventions—having her as your MC is like getting Billy Crystal back as host of the Oscars—and the author of some of the field's funniest...
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