Any work by Ted Chan attracts the attention of readers. Most of them are nominated for various fantastic awards and many of them are won by .. No exception, and Ted Chan’s story “Exhalation”, published in 2008 and managed to collect an impressive bouquet of awards to date. Ted Chan presents us with a strange but believable world of mechanical beings that exist only through the constant replacement of their lungs. The creatures living in this world have always believed that the source of all their life is air and so it will always be. The harbinger of the upcoming changes are reports of unexplained errors in the testimony of time. Simultaneously, an unnamed anatomist creates a device to disassemble (literally) his brain and, finally, to understand how it works ... This story is in many ways ideologically reminiscent of Chan’s first great success story “The Tower of Babel” . These works are, first of all, about the knowledge of the world, the universe .. The story is easy to read, there is not a single superfluous word . Bravo, Ted Chan!Translation serge. infomsk. ru