Staff Picks: Exhalation by Ted Chiang

December 28, 2019December 26, 2019 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2019 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Liza Trombi selects Ted Chiang’s latest collection, Exhalation. Gary K. Wolfe says, “At their best they have much the same kind of appeal of Borges’s most provocative tales – not without feeling and empathy, but, fundamentally, explorations of the sheer romance of thinking.”

You can read his review online or in the May 2019 issue of Locus.

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