Title: The Great Silence Title Record # 2011033
Authors: Allora and Calzadilla and Ted Chiang
Date: 2015-05-08
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
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Year Title 2015ⓘ First published in May 8, 2015 issue of e-flux. Unlike this story's May 2016 publication in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, which has 2 co-author credits, the editors of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 chose to credit only Ted Chiang. As explained in Chiang's "Contributor's Note", "There are actually two pieces titled 'The Great Silence,' only one of which can fit in this anthology. ... The video installation [piece], titled The Great Silence, was shown at Philadelphia's Fabric Workshop and Museum as part of an exhibition of Allora and Calzadilla's work. ... In 2015 [they] were asked to contribute to a special issue of the art journal e-flux as part of the 56th Venice Biennale and they suggested publishing the text from our collaboration. I hadn't written the text to stand alone, but it turned out to work pretty well even when removed from its intended context. That was how 'The Great Silence,' the short story, came to be." The Great Silence [as by Ted Chiang]

Year Language Title 2019ⓘTranslated by Arie Storm Dutch De grote stilte [as by Ted Chiang] 2019ⓘTranslated by Ксения Егорова (Kseniya Egorova) Russian Великое безмолвие?Velikoe bezmolvie [as by Тед Чан?Ted Chan ] 2019ⓘTranslated by 大森望 (Nozomi Ohmori). Japanese 大いなる沈黙?おおいなる ちんもく Ooinaru Chinmoku [as by テッド・チャン?Teddo Chan ] 2020ⓘTranslated by Mihai-Dan Pavelescu and Alina Sârbu Romanian Marea tăcere?Marea tacere 2020ⓘTranslated by Jakob Schmidt German Die große Stille [as by Ted Chiang] 2021 Portuguese O Grande Silêncio [as by Ted Chiang]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May-June 2016	2016-05-00	ed. C. C. Finlay	Spilogale, Inc.		$7.99?$: US dollar	260	digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Max Bertolini
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016	2016-10-04	ed. Karen Joy Fowler	Mariner Books	978-0-544-55520-4	$14.95?$: US dollar	xxiii+ [3]+ 293	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Mark R. Robinson
The Best American Short Stories 2016	2016-10-04	ed. Junot Díaz, Heidi Pitlor	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	978-0-544-58275-0	$28.00?$: US dollar	xx+ 311	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Best American Short Stories 2016	2016-10-04	ed. Junot Díaz, Heidi Pitlor	Mariner Books	978-0-544-58289-7	$14.95?$: US dollar	xx+ 336	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016	2016-10-04	ed. Karen Joy Fowler	Mariner Books	978-0-544-55521-1	$9.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Mark R. Robinson
The Great Silence	2016-10-11	Ted Chiang	Electric Literature (Recommended Reading #230)		$1.22?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap	Logan Kahle
Exhalation	2019-05-07	Ted Chiang	Alfred A. Knopf (Borzoi Books)	978-1-101-94788-3	$25.95?$: US dollar	350	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Na Kim
Exhalation	2019-05-07	Ted Chiang	Random House Audio	978-1-984844-45-3	$31.50?$: US dollar		digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	coll	Na Kim
Exhalation	2019-05-07	Ted Chiang	Alfred A. Knopf (Borzoi Books)	978-1-101-94790-6	$13.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Na Kim
Exhalation	2019-07-11	Ted Chiang	Picador	978-1-5290-1448-8	£16.99?£: UK pound	368	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Exhalation	2019-07-11	Ted Chiang	Picador	978-1-5290-1450-1	£8.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Shutterstock
Exhalation	2019-11-27	Ted Chiang	Thorndike Press	978-1-4328-7137-6	$30.99?$: US dollar	524	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Exhalation	2020-06-30	Ted Chiang	Vintage Books	978-1-101-97208-3	$16.95?$: US dollar	350	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Na Kim
Exhalation	2020-07-23	Ted Chiang	Picador	978-1-5290-1449-5	£9.99?£: UK pound	208	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll

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