Ted Chiang, perhaps the greatest living Science Fiction writer, has very little of his excellent fiction (a dozen stories, novellettes and novellas) available in the audio format. That is a bitter, bitter shame. It is my hope this post will help change that.
Lamentably, no Ted Chiang audiobooks have ever been commercially released. There are, however, several podcast sources for readings and the BBC commissioned an unabridged recording of Understand (which has been occasionally rebroadcast).
Below is a chart detailing all of Ted Chiang’s published fiction.
Audio (YES/NO): – Title: – Original Publication: – MP3: – Audio Publisher: – Notes:
– Tower Of Babylon – Omni, November 1990 – novelette
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– Division By Zero – Full Spectrum 3 (1991) – short story
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– Understand – Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, August 1991 – BBC Radio 7 – occasionally rebroadcast on BBCR7, read by Rashan Stone, novelette
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– Story Of Your Life – Starlight 2, (1998) – novella
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– The Evolution Of Human Science (aka Catching Crumbs From The Table) – Nature, June 1, 2000 – short story
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– Seventy-Two Letters – Vanishing Acts (2000) – novella
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– Hell Is The Absence Of God – Starlight 3 (2001) – |MP3| – Podcastle – read by James Trimarco, bad sound quality, novelette
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– Liking What You See: A Documentary – Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) – novelette
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– What’s Expected Of Us – Nature, July 5, 2005 – |MP3| – StarShip Sofa – read by Julie Davis, short story
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– The Merchant And The Alchemist’s Gate – Subterranean Press (2007) – StarShip Sofa – |MP3| – read by J.J. Campanella, novelette
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– Exhalation – Eclipse 2, 2008 – |MP3| or |MP3| – StarShip Sofa / Escape Pod – read by Ray Sizemore, short story
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– The Lifecycle of Software Objects – Subterranean Press (2010) – novella
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Posted by Jesse Willis
Stories of Your Life would be the perfect project for Audible Frontiers.
I don’t know if anyone will see this, but! I have been listening to Ted Chiang’s collection “Stories of Your Life and Others” which was released yesterday by Tantor Audio. It doesn’t have “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” (obviously, this is Chiang’s 2002 collection, and “Lifecycle” is from 2010) and it’s really fantastically well done. Hope Tantor goes on to “Lifecycle” sometime as a short standalone, or collecting the stories since “Stories”.