Friday, February 7, 2025

2025 read #13: The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted Chiang.

The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted Chiang
Illustrated by Jacob McMurray
61 pages
Published 2007
Read February 7
Rating: 3.5 out of 5

A slight but fun novella about time travel and the predestination paradox in medieval Baghdad, complemented with lovely collage artwork. Structured as a series of vignettes. Not much to it, though I did enjoy it.

These old Subterranean Press hardback editions were such a fixture of my old library back on Long Island; I used to pad out my reading totals with them, way back when, in the early days of this blog. Hell, this book would’ve been just six years old when I started writing these reviews. Speaking of time travel, what I wouldn’t give to go back to the Obama years…

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