Clarion West presents a conversation with Ted Chiang and Dr. Emily M. Bender on Friday, November 10 at 7:30 PM at Town Hall Seattle. Purchase tickets here. UW Professor of Linguistics Emily M. Bender talks with award-winning science fiction author … Continue reading
Today’s California Sunday Magazine, part of the LA Times, has a fine article about Ted Chiang — “The Perfectionist: Ted Chiang’s science fiction wins piles of awards. When he publishes, which is hardly ever”. “Sometimes, people who read my work … Continue reading
Acclaimed sf writer Ted Chiang will read selections from his work at UC Riverside on March 4 at 7 p.m. in the Department of English conference room, HMNSS 2212. “Ted Chiang is the premier writer of short fiction in the … Continue reading
(1) CLOSE ENOUGH FOR…WHAT KIND OF WORK? Ted Chiang tells The New Yorker that “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”. … This analogy to lossy compression is not just a way to understand ChatGPT’s facility at repackaging information … Continue reading
(1) CHICON 8 SITE SELECTION OPENS 8/6. Site Selection Administrator Warren Buff wrote to members today that voting for the location of both the 2024 Worldcon and the 2023 NASFiC will open August 6. Also that day there will be … Continue reading
(1) THE MASTER’S VOICE. “Hoard of the rings: ‘lost’ scripts for BBC Tolkien drama discovered” reports the Guardian. These artifacts of previously lost radio history include notes in Tolkien’s hand. Decades before Peter Jackson directed his epic adaptations of The Lord of the … Continue reading
A Few (Pointed) Observations of the 2020 Hugo Awards Ceremony By Chris M. Barkley: I usually don’t offer any commentary after the Hugo Awards are given out because the will of the voters has been expressed and as the song … Continue reading
By Chris M. Barkley: Stuff I’m Nominating for the 2017 Hugo Awards, Part Two Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form Arrival (Paramount Pictures/Sony Pictures, 116 minutes) Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Screenplay by Eric Heisserer, based on the novella “The Story … Continue reading
The nominees for the 2016 Geffen Awards (Israel Speculative Fiction Awards) have been announced. The Geffen organizers asked the nominated authors of original fiction in Hebrew authors for the English translations of their titles, which File 770 has obtained with … Continue reading
Paramount Pictures has bought the U.S., Canadian and China distribution rights for Story of Your Life, scripted by Eric Heisserer from Ted Chiang’s short story – winner of the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards. “The film is centered on … Continue reading