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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
published: 2019, read: 1/11/23
368 pages, genre: Sci-Fi
rating: 7.5/10, normalized: 7.222/10
0.224σ better than average
0.551σ or 0.515/10 better than average in Sci-Fi genre
A collection of short stories with The Great Silence and The Lifecycle of a Software Object earning the points for the anthology on the whole. Very thought provoking and morally philosophical, respectively. The rest of the stories aren't bad, but don't stand out as much.
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| 1/11/23 | Ted Chiang | Exhalation | 368 | 2019 | Sci-Fi | 7.500 | 7.222 | ||
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