The meeting will be held on TUESDAY, June 7th at 6:00 pm IN PERSON at the Harbor History Museum. The book for our June meeting is Exhalation by Ted Chiang.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others
Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory.
Ted Chiang’s fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus Awards, and has been featured in The Best American Short Stories. His debut collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, has been translated into twenty-one languages. He was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and currently lives near Seattle, Washington.
Here are some interesting interviews with Chiang that offer insight into his as a person and a speculative fiction writer as well as his stories. Here are links to a few of these resources:
1. From Good AI: https://medium.com/@goodai/a-conversation-with-ted-chiang-baecc9ae9c57
2. An Ezra Klein podcast transcript (you can also listen from this link): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-ted-chiang-transcript.html
3. From Geekwire: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/sci-fi-master-ted-chiang-explores-rights-wrongs-artificial-intelligence/
4. From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/12/exhalation-by-ted-chiang-review
5. From the Asian American Writer's Workshop: https://aaww.org/the-occasional-writer-an-interview-with-science-fiction-author-ted-chiang/
The book is available from the Gig Harbor branch of Pierce County Public Library. You can get a copy in one of several ways:
1. Call and identify yourself as a Gig Harbor Literary Society member and the staff will put a copy aside for you.
2. Request through the library website.
3. Request an electronic version through the Libby app on your device. (If you don't know how to do this, the library staff may be able to help.)
We look forward to hearing your thoughts. As always, even if you don't have a chance to read or listen to the book, join us.
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This event is FREE and open to the public. For questions, please contact Cindy Hackett at cynthia.hale.hackett@gmail.com