Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (姜峯楠).Chiang's short fiction works have (as of 2013) won 4 Nebula awards, 3 Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, 3 Locus awards, and others. Critic John Clute has praised Chiang's "tight-hewn and lucid" style, and says Chiang's stories have "a magnetic effect on the reader."