Tower of Babylon (story)

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"Tower of Babylon" is a science fantasy novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in 1990 by Omni. The story revisits the Tower of Babel myth as a construction megaproject, in a setting where the principles of pre-scientific cosmology (flat Earth, geocentrism and the Firmament) are literally true. It is Chiang's first published work. The story won the 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and was reprinted in Chiang's 2002 anthology, Stories of Your Life and Others.

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