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Ted Chiang, a Rare card
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.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 153
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Power 153 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Ted Chiang quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ted Chiang card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film ______.
Answer
Arrival. His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival. From the Ted Chiang article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Justin Martyr. Justin Martyr 85 · Doris Lessing 77 · Ted Chiang 74 · Andy Rourke 70 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He has published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation: Stories.
- His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival.
- He was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame from 2020 to 2021.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ted Chiang article was read about 240,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Ted Chiang
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Ted Chiang in the power ranking, all domains together.
- SarcopterygiiRare · Nature · ATK 75 DEF 78
- Tress MacNeilleRare · Arts · ATK 74 DEF 79
- Flood mythRare · Nature · ATK 74 DEF 79
- Goblin sharkRare · Nature · ATK 72 DEF 81
- Jan MayenRare · Nature · ATK 77 DEF 76
- Justin MartyrRare · Science · ATK 85 DEF 68
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ted Chiang (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Arturo Villarrubia, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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