Ted Chiang
2 Quotations from Ted Chiang
| metahuman n. | 2000 Catching Crumbs from the Table in Nature 1 June 517/1 No doubt many of our subscribers remember reading papers whose authors were the first individuals ever to obtain the results they described. But as metahumans began to dominate experimental research, they increasingly made their findings available only via DNT (digital neural transfer), leaving journals to publish second-hand accounts translated into human language. |
| space drive n. | 1998 Story of your Life in P. N. Hayden Starlight 2 309 It didn’t exclude the possibility that the heptapods might yet offer us a space drive, or cold fusion, or some other wish-fulfilling miracle. |