Granfalloon is also supported in part by a number of IU offices, including IU Libraries, IU Bookstore, Jacobs School of Music, Department of English, IU Cinema, and Platform: An Arts and Humanities Laboratory. 'Hell Is' won the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Granfalloon is supported in part by a number of corporate and foundation supporters, including Graduate Bloomington, Visit Bloomington and City of Bloomington. ' Hell Is the Absence of God ' is a 2001 fantasy novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in Starlight 3, and subsequently reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 2, and in Fantasy: The Best of 2001, as well as in Chiang's 2002 anthology, Stories of Your Life and Others. This event is supported in part by the IU Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President and IU Research. For more information on Ted Chiang, please visit reading will be followed by a book signing with books available for purchase. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

His fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards, and he is the recipient of the John W. In 1989 he attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Workshop. The Oscar-nominated film, Arrival, was based on his novella, “Story of Your Life.” Given this year’s festival themes of technology and creativity, automation, and the rise of the computer age (taken from Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano), Chiang’s prescient and immensely thoughtful science-fiction is a perfect fit. Ted Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and holds a degree in computer science.

Chiang’s fiction has won more than two dozen prizes - including four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards – and has been featured in The Best American Short Stories. The IU Arts and Humanities Council is thrilled to be hosting Ted Chiang as part of the 2023 Granfalloon Festival.

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