Ted Chiang is a well renowned writer – he won three Nebulas, one Hugo and countless nominations for best short story or novelette of the year, prior to writing The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (TMatAG) which won him another Nebula Award for Best Novelette (2007) and a Hugo nomination (the recipients of the award will be proclaimed at Worldcon late in the summer). As the latest trend, novels tend to be overblown, lacking in focus and good editing but the lesser the page count (novellas, novelettes and especially short stories) the greater the focus, the more profound the idea and the more well-versed the writing has to be to make an impact on the reader. I’ve never been much of a fan of short literary forms - I’ve always favored big sprawling epics - but this changed in the last couple of months. Ted Chiang - The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
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