Exhalation

by Ted Chiang · 2019

A short-story collection exploring technological possibilities and their consequences for human lives.

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Documented citation: In his own ranked science-fiction reviews, Karpathy explicitly identifies the collection as required reading.

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In his own ranked science-fiction reviews, Karpathy explicitly identifies the collection as required reading.

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