Takiej książki Teda Chianga jeszcze nie było. To światowa prapremiera. Drugie wydanie zbioru opowiadań Teda Chianga, najwybitniejszego autora opowiadań w amerykańskiej SF ostatnich lat. Praktycznie każde jego opowiadanie – a publikuje ich niewiele, czasem tylko jedno rocznie – jest wydarzeniem literackim. Jego teksty zdobywają też liczne nagrody. Zbiór „Siedemdziesiąt dwie litery” zawiera wszystkie opowiadania Chianga, jakie opublikował od początku swojej kariery. Zbiór oparto na wydaniu „Historii twojego życia”, znakomicie przyjętej w Polsce książki, zawiera jednak dwa dodatkowe opowiadania (oba nagrodzone) – a jedno z nich nigdy nie zostało w Polsce opublikowane. Zawartość zbioru: * „Wieża Babilonu” * „Zrozum” * „Dzielenie przez zero” * „Historia twojego życia” * „72 litery” * „Ewolucja ludzkiej nauki” * „Piekło to nieobecność Boga” * „Co ma cieszyć oczy” * „Co z nami będzie” * „Kupiec i wrota alchemika” * „Wydech”
Author
Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan. He graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington. He is a graduate of the noted Clarion Writers Workshop (1989). Although not a prolific author, having published only eleven short stories as of 2009, Chiang has to date won a string of prestigious speculative fiction awards for his works: a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990), the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992, a Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for "Story of Your Life" (1998), a Sidewise Award for "Seventy-Two Letters" (2000), a Nebula Award, Locus Award and Hugo Award for his novelette "Hell Is the Absence of God" (2002), a Nebula and Hugo Award for his novelette "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007), and a British Science Fiction Association Award, a Locus Award, and the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Exhalation" (2009). Chiang turned down a Hugo nomination for his short story "Liking What You See: A Documentary" in 2003, on the grounds that the story was rushed due to editorial pressure and did not turn out as he had really wanted. Chiang's first eight stories are collected in "Stories of Your Life, and Others" (1st US hardcover ed: ISBN 0-7653-0418-X; 1st US paperback ed.: ISBN 0-7653-0419-8). His novelette "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" was also published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. As of 2013, his short fiction has won four Nebula Awards, three Hugo Awards, the John W Campbell Award, three Locus Awards, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award. He has never written a novel but is one of the most decorated science fiction writers currently working.
