Book Chat: Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Join us for our new fiction book discussion group, Book Chat! We will discuss a wide variety of fiction. Register with your email to be added to our list to receive news about the group. Books will be available to pick up from the Book Club shelf at the library. Please register through the event calendar.

April's meeting will take place in the First Floor Meeting Room. We'll be discussing Exhalation, a science fiction short story collection by Ted Chiang:

Tackling some of humanity's oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory.

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 second chances. In "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.