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Exhalation (2019)

de Ted Chiang

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This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. And in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. Also included are two brand-new stories: "Omphalos" and "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom." In this fantastical and elegant collection, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on earth--What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human?--and ones that no one else has even imagined. And, each in its own way, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty, meaning, and compassion.… (més)
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Not my genre, but a great set of stories that certainly prompt thinking. ( )
  bookem | Mar 27, 2024 |
Loved it! Each story was very different and brought unusual perspective to difficult situations. Very unique in the genre. Will reread. ( )
  RuthInman123 | Mar 12, 2024 |
Some imaginative stories in here, exploring some of the current zeitgeist around AI, quantum mechanics, and others. I found the stories interesting but the interpersonal communications we're really hard to get through and tended to break the spell in their awkwardness. ( )
  wsampson13 | Mar 2, 2024 |
Exhalación
Ted Chiang
Publicado: 2019 | 245 páginas
Relato Ciencia ficción

¿Creías que no te gustaba la ciencia ficción? El nuevo libro del autor que inspiró la película «La llegada», escogido por The New York Times como uno de los libros del año. ¿Qué pasaría si un inocente juguete dinamitara nuestra noción de libre albedrío? ¿Y si fuera posible ponerse en contacto con versiones de nosotros mismos en otras líneas temporales? Si creáramos mascotas virtuales provistas de una inteligencia artificial que les permitiera aprender como si fueran niños humanos, ¿qué clase de compromiso ético deberíamos asumir con su educación y su futuro? ¿Y qué ocurriría si pudiéramos visionar cualquier episodio de nuestra vida tal como sucedió, sin el matiz afectivo y el sesgo interpretativo de lo que llamamos «recuerdos»? No importa cuál sea el tema que trate Ted Chiang en sus narraciones, siempre demuestra una formidable habilidad para indagar en los enigmas de la condición humana y abordar los conflictos éticos que la relación con la tecnología plantea en nuestra existencia. Lejos del enfoque distópico hoy predominante en las narraciones futuristas, las historias de Chiang muestran una perspectiva abiertamente positiva y vitalista, delineando preguntas filosóficas de un enorme calado humano. Ted Chiang es uno de los nombres insoslayables de la ciencia ficción, género en el que desde hace años goza del más sólido prestigio, como atestigua la infinidad de premios que su obra ha recibido; reveladores, elegantes y sorprendentes, los relatos de Exhalación lo sitúan, sencillamente, entre los autores indiscutibles de la literatura estadounidense actual.
  libreriarofer | Feb 19, 2024 |
Truly incredible. So many unique ideas written in such poignant ways ( )
  also_micah | Feb 10, 2024 |
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Exhalation’s nine stories are … fine. A couple are excellent, most are good, a couple don’t really work. It feels like damning the book with faint praise to say so, but isn’t that exactly how short-story collections generally work?
 
I can’t think of another modern genre writer like him, myself: his tales make me think of the same sort of impact a Bradbury or a Heinlein story had in the Golden Age, where readers would read something just because it is written by the author.
 
In the hands of a truly fatalistic writer, the premises and conceits in Exhalation would frogmarch us down the tired path to dystopia. But Chiang takes the constraints on our freedom as a starting point from which we have to decide what it means to act as if our decisions still matter.
 
Chiang is a writer of precision and grace. His stories extrapolate from first premises with the logic and rigor of a well-designed experiment but at the same time are deeply affecting, responsive to the complexities and variability of human life.
 
[Chiang's] voice and style are so beautifully trim it makes you think that, like one of his characters, he has a magical looking-box hidden in his basement that shows him nothing except the final texts of stories he has already written — just so he'll know exactly how to write them well in the first place.
 

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Ted Chiangautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Ballerini, EdoardoNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Blair, KellyDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Hoffman, DominicNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kim, NaDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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O might caliph and commander of the faithful, I am humbled to be in the splendor of your presence; a man can hope for no greater blessing as long as he lives.
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Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
--"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"
My message to you is this: Pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important; what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.
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But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren't they interested in listening to our voices?
  We're a nonhuman species capable of communicating with them. Aren't we exactly what humans are looking for?
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Experience is algorithmically incompressible.
--"Exhalation"
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This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. And in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. Also included are two brand-new stories: "Omphalos" and "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom." In this fantastical and elegant collection, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on earth--What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human?--and ones that no one else has even imagined. And, each in its own way, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty, meaning, and compassion.

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