Ted Chiang's short stories - Like the optimistic version of black mirror episodes!
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The Best Short Story of All Time - 72 Letters
Exhalation is a short story that explores entropy through an alien narrator on an alien in an alien universe. 72 letters has the golems exploring coding and genetic manipulation in a magical realm. His mythological stuff also has a lot of draws. He draws on a lot of really cool traditions like he has the tower of Babylon, which is his very short first short story.
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