TedChiang is one of those authors who doesn't publish much - so far, just a bunch of short stories, recently collected in _Stories of Your Life and Others_ - but what he does write tends to be very good indeed. Pretty much every story he's published has been nominated for some award or other; his first, 'Tower of Babylon', won the Nebula, and his most recent, 'Hell Is The Absence Of God', won a Hugo. His work is an interesting mix of genres; conceptually, several of them are straight-up fantasy, but they are written with a rigorousness or logical progression more reminiscent of HardSF (which is probably where the comparisons with GregEgan come from). - isfdb:Author/Ted_Chiang - google:Ted-Chiang _(oh ye of little faith!)_ There's a very rich seam of SF meta-thought to be mined in asking HowHardIsTedChiang? It might even involve coining the term HardF ... You can read his story 'Understand' online: . CategoryAuthor