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Title: The Great Silence Title Record # 2070254
Author: Ted Chiang
Date: 2015-05-08
Variant Title of: The Great Silence (by Allora and Calzadilla and Ted Chiang) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: supercommunity.e-flux.com
Language: English
Note:
  • 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."
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
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 Checkmark
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 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 Checkmark
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 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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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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