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"Division by Zero" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in 1991 in Full Spectrum 3 magazine [2] [3] and subsequently republished in the 2002 Ted Chiang collection Stories of Your Life and Others.
Ted Chiang was born in 1967 to a Taiwanese American family in Port Jefferson, New York. [3] His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (姜峯楠; Jiāng Fēngnán). [4]Both of his parents are Taiwanese waishengren who were born in mainland China and migrated to Taiwan with their families during the retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan before immigrating to the United States. [5]
Divide and Rule (short story) L. Sprague de Camp: Unknown (magazine) 1939 Divided We Fall: Raymond F. Jones: Amazing Stories: 1950 Division by Zero (story) Ted Chiang: Full Spectrum 3: 1991 Dog Star (short story) Arthur C. Clarke: Galaxy Science Fiction: 1962 Dogfight (short story) Michael Swanwick: Omni: 1985 Dr. Ox's Experiment: Jules Verne ...
It collects Chiang's first eight stories. All of the stories except "Liking What You See: A Documentary" were previously published individually elsewhere. It was reprinted in 2016 as Arrival to coincide with the adaptation of "Story of Your Life" as the film Arrival. [2] [3] Chiang's second collection, Exhalation: Stories was released in 2019. [4]
Elf Sternberg has compared the novelette to C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, saying that although Lewis is a supporter of God, Chiang is "far more ambivalent". [11] In a review of Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others in The Guardian, English fantasy author China Miéville called "Hell Is the Absence of God" the showpiece of Chiang's collection.
Division by zero is a term used in mathematics if the divisor (denominator) is zero. Division by Zero or Dividing by Zero or Divide by Zero may also refer to: Division by Zero, by Hux Flux, 2003; Dividing by Zero, a 2002 album by Seven Storey Mountain "Dividing by Zero", a song by the Offspring from the 2012 album Days Go By
This is Ted Chiang's second collection of short works, after the 2002 book Stories of Your Life and Others. Exhalation: Stories contains nine stories exploring such issues as humankind's place in the universe, the nature of humanity, bioethics, virtual reality, free will and determinism, time travel, and the uses of robotic forms of A.I. [1] Seven tales were initially published between 2005 ...
Whitehead used animal sound recordings, such as whale songs and cat purrs, along with altered recordings of his voice to create the sounds of Heptapod A. [3] He worked alongside McGill professor Morgan Sonderegger, who served as a linguistics consultant and assisted in splicing the sounds during the development of the language.