{"id":25666,"date":"2025-12-08T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25666"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:23:45","slug":"library-addition-first-of-ted-chiangs-exhalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25666","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: First of Ted Chiang&#8217;s Exhalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I already had the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19182\">signed, limited edition<\/a> of this, but the true first disappeared before I was aware of its existence. <\/p>\n<p>Chiang, Ted. <b>Exhalation<\/b>. Knopf, 2019. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bend at heel and a trace of haze rubbing. Short story collection, Ted&#8217;s second. Includes such Hugo and Nebula-winning stories as &#8220;The Merchant and the Alchemist&#8217;s Gate&#8221; (which he brought to a Turkey City Writer&#8217;s Workshop I hosted, despite it being, like all Ted&#8217;s short fiction, annoyingly perfect already), &#8220;Exhalation,&#8221; and &#8220;The Lifecycle of Software Objects.&#8221; Bought for $13 at Half Price Books. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chiang-Exhalation-true-1st-695x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"663\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chiang-Exhalation-true-1st-695x1024.png 695w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chiang-Exhalation-true-1st-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chiang-Exhalation-true-1st-768x1132.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chiang-Exhalation-true-1st-1042x1536.png 1042w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chiang-Exhalation-true-1st.png 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already had the signed, limited edition of this, but the true first disappeared before I was aware of its existence. Chiang, Ted. Exhalation. Knopf, 2019. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bend at heel and a trace of haze rubbing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":20,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,1949,1970,718],"class_list":["post-25666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-half-price-books","tag-science-fiction","tag-ted-chiang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25673,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25666\/revisions\/25673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}