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Title: The Great Silence Title Record # 2011033
Authors: Allora and Calzadilla and Ted Chiang
Date: 2015-05-08
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: electricliterature.com, supercommunity.e-flux.com
Language: English
Note: First published on-line in eflux journal, May 8, 2015
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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
2019Translated by Arie Storm
Dutch De grote stilte [as by Ted Chiang]
2019Translated by Ксения Егорова (Kseniya Egorova)
Russian [as by
Тед Чан?Ted Chan
]
2019Translated 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 ]
2020Translated by Mihai-Dan Pavelescu and Alina Sârbu
Romanian
Marea tăcere?Marea tacere
2020Translated by Jakob Schmidt
German Die große Stille [as by Ted Chiang]
2021 Portuguese O Grande Silêncio [as by Ted Chiang]

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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".
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