Writer
Ted Chiang
American writer whose story became the film Arrival.
Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer, whose work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. He has published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) and Exhalation: Stories (2019). His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). He was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame from 2020 to 2021. Chiang is also a frequent non-fiction contributor to the New Yorker, where he writes on topics related to computing such as artificial intelligence.
- Born
- 1967-10-20, Port Jefferson, USAA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Libra, Moon in Taurus
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1967-10-20, Port Jefferson, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 26°34′ | Direct |
| Moon | Taurus | 20°48′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 17°19′ | Direct |
| Venus | Virgo | 11°42′ | Direct |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 28°13′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 0°11′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Aries | 7°39′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Virgo | 26°47′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 23°04′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Virgo | 21°43′ | Direct |
Ted Chiang is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Ted Chiang was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.