(ebook online) Exhalation Stories [PDF EPuB AudioBook Ebook]

collection that we would do well to read before the worlds it conjures are upon us. Urgently recommended.―
—Alan Moore “Exquisite. . . . The stories in Exhalation are a shining example of science fiction at its
best. They take both science and humanism deeply seriously.―—Constance Grady, Vox “Ted Chiang
writes with such a matter-of-fact grace and visionary power that one simply takes on faith that his worlds
and his characters exist, whether they are human or robot or parrot; he is the rare author who makes me feel,
also, that he believes in his readers, in our integrity and our imagination.― —Karen Russell, author of
Orange World  “Ted Chiang has no contemporary peers when it comes to the short story form. His
name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Carver, Poe, Borges, and Kafka. Every story is a
universe. Every story is a diamond. You will inhale Exhalation in a single, stunned sitting, because true
genius doesnâ€t come along nearly as often as advertised. This is the real thing.― —Blake Crouch,
author of Dark Matter“Exquisitely crafted. . . . One after another, Chiangâ€s stories claim their place
in your mind until youâ€re completely swept up in his provocative and at times even charming world. . . .
Each story is a carefully considered, finely honed machine. . . . What makes Exhalation particularly brilliant
is that not one of the stories feels like itâ€s designed to