[Arainach]

Ted Chiang is the greatest living science fiction short story writer I'm aware of, and ranks highly on my all time list.

[Darkphibre]

His short story "Understand" is just... amazing.

It wasn't until I discovered I was on the spectrum that I realized why it clicked so much. >.< I'm masking all the time, running conversational simulations to anticipate the societally-expected response to any given situation (and am high on the IQ spectrum).

https://web.archive.org/web/20140527121332/http://www.infini...

[jperoutek]

I second this. Exhalation for some reason really resonates with me.

[Froztnova]

Exhalation is really excellent.

It's not really sci-fi but I also really enjoyed The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate, and the one about the tower of babel, I forget the name at the moment.

[kaiokendev]

Tower of Babylon

it's brilliant

[riffraff]

I have only read a few stories by Ted Chiang, but I concur, they were all fantastic.

[jcul]

Story of your life is one of my favorite short stories.