@abucci I've sometimes said that his stories feel like an answer to "What if Jorge Luis Borges was born in Generation X and had a computer science degree?" ... but while there is a definite Borgesian quality to Chiang, Chiang is very much his own writer."The Great Silence" literally moved me to tears - while I read it in public, on a bus. (at a time in my life where tears didn't come as easily to me as they do now.)