7/7/2023 0 Comments Arrival short story ted chiangThe Jibo story was a sharp example of life imitating art, and a reminder of why Chiang, who until very recently was a technical writer for Microsoft, is revered in the sci-fi community as one of the most exciting thinkers of his generation. When sales stall, Blue Gamma plans to shut down their servers, leaving digient owners distraught. “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” – the novella-length centrepiece of a new short story collection, Exhalation, his first since his 2002 debut, Stories of Your Life and Others – details the efforts of a fictional company, Blue Gamma, to maintain socially conscious virtual “digients”, which owners “raise” for up to 20 years. The story was about how Jibo, a manufacturer of artificially intelligent “companion” robots for the home, was now shutting down its servers, causing distress to Jibo owners who had come to think of their little robots as part of the family. In March, Ted Chiang, whose 1998 science fiction novella “Story of Your Life” about alien communication became the basis of the Oscar-nominated film Arrival, was sitting at his computer at home in Seattle, when he came across a news story that surprised him. Ted Chiang, one of the most exciting writers in science fiction, tells Eleanor Halls about his fight to escape “the genre ghetto”
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