From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others - the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival - comes a second collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. In Exhalation, 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 has even imagined. Barack Obama, Summer Reading 2019