![]() ![]() In “Exhalation,” an elaborate contraption of gold foil leaves, the position of which is manipulated by the currents of air that flow through the leaves, replaces the human brain. Most striking in “Exhalation” are the stories that share a fascination with breath as the ultimate source of existence. Even the most banal presumptions that undergird our quotidian lives are unseated by the strangeness of these stories. ![]() These stories closely interrogate the fundamental forms of knowledge and cognition taken for granted in modern life. ![]() Chiang’s nine short works explore the fundamental and most salient questions about the human condition and what it means to exist. It comes as no surprise, then, that “Exhalation,” Chiang’s newest collection of short stories, is brilliant and thought-provoking. Ted Chiang’s short stories win so many awards that science fiction critics joke that the Hugo and Nebula short story awards exist just for him to win. ![]()
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