Exhalation by Ted Chiang

BATB score: 6/10 okay but not wow 🙄

a collection of 9 sci-fi futuristic short stories covering time travel, metaverse, global warming, digital twin, god, and prism everything everywhere all at once

Best to: check out “AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future” by Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee a BATB 10/10 instead

Best as: other than the first and last story that was good, the rest of the stories were very meh; the plot, the twist, the dystopia concept, the sci-fi imagination, the character connection - all was not there

Best for: I don’t know, Ted Chiang, I just could not connect with you, you know? It’s like you were trying to explore writing about these topics and you took me along with you but this is truly your journey and my presence may not have been necessary

BATB lingering thought: okay, the stories were meant for you to continue thinking about the concepts.. but there’s not much more to think about urgh