Review: Exhalation

Exhalation by Ted Chiang
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I do not have superlatives for this work. Though I'm not partial to short stories, these are that and so much more: every short a world unto itself, will exhort you to rethink and challenge everything you think you know about the nature of reality and how we know what we know--he's obviously smitten with philosophy in general and epistemology specifically. These stories stretched the width and length of my neurons. They're dense, sci fi but not at all dystopian and in some ways, actively utopian. Wow, never read anything like this. He's a writer unto himself.

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