Ted Chiang doesn’t just write stories—he rewires your brain while he’s at it.
In Exhalation, nine dazzling tales tackle the universe’s biggest questions: fate, free will, time, memory, and all the ways we’re hopelessly tangled in them. A fabric seller in ancient Baghdad steps through a portal and faces the weight of his past. An alien scientist unearths a discovery so seismic it could collapse reality itself. And a machine that lets you peek into alternate timelines forces a brutal reckoning with the choices you thought you made freely.
Winner of the Locus Award and named a New York Times Best Book of the Year, Exhalation isn’t just science fiction—it’s philosophy dressed up in wonder.
Prepare to question everything you think you know—and maybe even everything you feel.
