Exhalation Condition:Very Good and heartbreak gives us the

and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending

and far away

author of Survive Like the Water

a wide swath of languages — with poems in Minion next to poems in HTML — and the recently-revived form of the udaiyaathathu alongside the ground-breaking twin cinema and asingbol

with innocence and courage

Exhalation Condition:Very Good and heartbreak gives us theThis 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