[imwm]

Didn't know this story was originally published in Nature. I read it in his excellent short story book Exhalation and loved it like I did many others in that collection.

Chiang is like Kafka and Borges in that he writes plain prose that blows your mind.

[roywiggins]

Nature has a fiction section:

https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures

> Futures is a venue for very short stories or ‘vignettes’ of between 850 and 950 words. The subject is typically near-future, hard SF, although this can be interpreted liberally.

http://blogs.nature.com/futureconditional/2015/04/19/how-to-...