The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
- The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
Infobox short story
name = The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
author = Ted Chiang
language = English
genre = Fantasy short story
published_in = "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"
publisher = Subterranean Press
publication_type = novelette
pub_date = July 2007
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" is a science fiction novelette by Ted Chiang originally published in 2007 by Subterranean Press and reprinted in the September 2007 issue of "Fantasy & Science Fiction". It won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. [ [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit27.html#915-2007 LOCUS Index to SF Awards] ]
Plot summary
The story follows Fuwaad ibn Abbas, a fabric merchant in the ancient city of Baghdad. It begins when he is searching for a gift to give a business associate and happens to discover a new shop in the marketplace. The shop owner, who makes and sells a variety of very interesting items, invites Fuwaad into the back workshop to see his gateway into the future. Fuwaad is intrigued, and the shop owner tells him three stories of others who have traveled through the gate to meet and converse with their future selves. When Fuwaad learns that the shop keeper has another gate in Cairo that will allow people to travel into the past, he makes the journey there to try and rectify a mistake he made twenty years earlier.
Footnotes
External links
* [http://podcast.starshipsofa.com/podcast/Ted_Chiang_The_Merchant_and_the_Alchemists_Gate.mp3 The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (full story read by James Campanella)]
* [http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/03/22/the-merchant-and-the-alchemists-gate-by-ted-chiang/ The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang] - a short review of the story at BestScienceFictionStories.com
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