Ted Chiang is being mentioned in the same breath as Jemisin, Cixin Liu and Leckie without ever having written a novel and having been far less prolific. His debut collection was award winning and the novella, ‘Story Of Your Life’ was adapted into the critically lauded film ‘Arrival’. Exhalation, his new collection of stories (some of which have been published previously in journals and the like), continues to explore themes of consciousness, physics, free will and language.