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
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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

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