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Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

by Ted Chiang

"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in the 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories. The novella's name quotes a proverb by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) in his work The Concept of Anxiety (1844).

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Hugo · 2020 · novella ↗
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Locus · 2020 · novella ↗
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Nebula · 2020 · novella ↗
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