caption birth_place nationality notableworks birth_date image article_title name occupation
chiang in madrid , spain , 2011 port jefferson , new york american `` tower of babylon '' -lrb- 1990 -rrb- 1967 chiang . jpg , ted -lrb- villarrubia -rrb- -lrb- cropped -rrb- ted chiang
 ted chiang fiction writer , technical writer
ted chiang

ted chiang -lrb- born 1967 -rrb- is an american science fiction writer .
his chinese name is chiang feng-nan -lrb- 姜峯楠 -rrb- .
chiang 's short fiction works have -lrb- -rrb- won 4 nebula awards , 3 hugo awards , the john w. campbell award for best new writer , 3 locus awards , and others .
critic john clute has praised chiang 's `` tight-hewn and lucid '' style , and says chiang 's stories have `` a magnetic effect on the reader . ''
