Work

The Great Silence

Allora, Calzadilla & Ted Chiang · 2015short story

Genre
- science fiction
Theme
- aliens
- ecological collapse
Time
- contemporary
Tone
- reflective
Audience
- adult

Also present

Tonesad

"The Great Silence" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ted Chiang that originated as the onscreen text for a video installation of the same name created in collaboration with Allora & Calzadilla. It was initially published as a story in e-flux Journal in May 2015. The story also appeared in the 2016 anthology The Best American Short Stories and in the 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories.

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Placement

contained in Exhalationcollection
contained in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016anthology
contained in The Best American Short Stories 2016anthology