Short Story of the Day - 'Exhalation' by Ted Chiang

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

This was an interesting read.

::: spoiler Spoiler

Although in the first half I was expecting actual humans to show up at some point. The analogy to entropy is obvious, but the author manages to shrink the unimaginable timescales of our universe's heat death down into something that we can feel and empathise with. :::

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makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d (1 reply)

This is a good one. I particularly like Hell is the Absence of God from the same short story collection

AwesomeLowlander@quokk.au · 2 pts · 26d

Just read it. Man, that story was a brainfuck