What’s expected of us (2005)
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What’s expected of us (2005)
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Re: What’s expected of us (2005)
#2Didn't know this story was originally published in Nature. I read it in his excellent short story book Exhalation and loved it like I did many others in that collection.
Chiang is like Kafka and Borges in that he writes plain prose that blows your mind.
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#3Didn't know this story was originally published in Nature. I read it in his excellent short story book Exhalation and loved it like I did many others in that collection. Chiang is like Kafka and Borges in that he writes plain prose that blows your mind.
Nature has a fiction section:
https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures
> Futures is a venue for very short stories or ‘vignettes’ of between 850 and 950 words. The subject is typically near-future, hard SF, although this can be interpreted liberally.
http://blogs.nature.com/futureconditional/2015/04/19/how-to-...
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#4Wow -- I did not like reading this absolute mind cruncher after a long day.
I thought it was real. ;)
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#5If you enjoyed this story and you’re a TV watcher, I highly recommend the mini-series Devs. Especially if you ever worked at a FAANG :)
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#6Clicked the link, immediately annoyed by the cookie banner which covered the bottom HALF of the screen. I believe humanity went wrong somewhere.
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#7I have this bookmarked alongside a couple of other short stories that you might enjoy if you liked this:
- http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html - http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html - https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/
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#8For those of you unfamiliar with Ted Chiang, he is a very highly regarded science fiction novelist who specializes in short-form writing. His novella "Story of Your Life" was the basis for the 2016 film Arrival, which I loved dearly and is definitely worth watching if you have not already.
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#9Clicked the link, immediately annoyed by the cookie banner which covered the bottom HALF of the screen. I believe humanity went wrong somewhere.
Here's to moving in the right direction: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
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#10Possibly uses Asimov's Thiotimoline as its mechanism, I hear the Soviets had a 77,000 cell chronobattery running the prediction up to 12 days in advance.
http://www.asimovreviews.net/Stories/Story271.html
(Can't find the speech / story content online)