Short Story of the Week
The Great Silence, Ted Chiang (2016)
Each week, I’m selecting a short story to share with you. No more than 15 or so pages, each think of them as bite-sized entrées into a genre, author, or style.
This week’s story is a bit of a double-whammy. Two for the price of one, intellectually speaking. Not only is it an engaging piece of creative writing, it’s also quite an interesting science lesson – at least for my fellow space-enthusiasts. Ted Chiang is a sci-fi author I’m partial to, and this story is a short 2016 piece that he’s written from the perspective of a hyper-intelligent parrot. Less silly and more metaphysically pensive than it sounds, it’s an easy read, and a great way to end a Sunday.