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Exhalation ted6/21/2023 ![]() When it is realized that a number of clocks simultaneously appear to be running fast but do not appear to be malfunctioning, the narrator decides to explore the explanation that people's brains are computing slower. ![]() The race obtains air from swappable lungs filled with pressurized air ( argon) from underground. The scientist is a member of a race of air-driven mechanical beings. The story is epistolary in nature, taking the form of a scientist's journal entry. In 2019, the story was included in the collection of short stories Exhalation: Stories. It was first published in 2008 in the anthology Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Jonathan Strahan. "Exhalation" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ted Chiang, about the Second Law of Thermodynamics. ![]() ![]() Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy ![]()
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