Ted Chiang's short story collection,
Exhalation: Stories is currently on sale for $1.99, normal price is $11.99. This is the cheapest it's ever been, with the previous best price being $2.99 in March & December of last year. It dropped to $1.99 on the 3rd and the previous sales lasted from two to five days. If you're interested in it, you might want to grab it quickly.
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This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary Exhalation, an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. And in The Lifecycle of Software Objects, a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. Also included are two brand-new stories: Omphalos and Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom.
In this fantastical and elegant collection, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on earth--What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human?--and ones that no one else has even imagined. And, each in its own way, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty, meaning, and compassion.
(Note: Full description is from GoodReads, since Amazon didn't deign to include it on their site.)
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It's also on sale at other sites for the same price, here are a few:
Also, check your emails from Amazon. They sent me a $5 credit off of select books, and this was one of them, so I got it for free.
Don't worry about wasting the credit, it's good on all three books in the email.