Hugo Award Nominee: "Exhalation"

"Exhalation"
Ted Chiang
Nominated for the Hugo Award: Short Story

This time I agree with Abigail Nussbaum. This is a cold, clinical story, but is also so damned interesting. In particular, the self-surgery on the narrator’s metallic brain is…well, an impressive piece of imagination. I don’t know how to talk about this. I recommend reading Abigail's Hugo post and Torque Control's wrap-up. I don't really have anything useful to say about it.

I’m not sure exactly in what I regard I hold Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation”. It’s quite good, but the cold, clinical nature does prevent me from fully getting behind the story.

Hmm.

Ted Chiang's "Exhalation" available

I was hoping this would happen and it did.

Ted Chiang's Hugo nominated story "Exhalation" is now available for free online reading.

Thanks to Jonathan Strahan for the heads up on that.