Exhalation is a collection of short stories from Ted Chiang. This is a beautiful collection of deep and thought provoking ideas delivered through the medium of stories. The book is, overall, like a "BlackMirror" series of the literary world, combining futuristic ideas with compelling story telling. As I turned the pages of this book, Ted Chiang effortlessly made his way from being a nobody in my world to my current favorite author of all times. My favourite among the gems in this collection is " Truth of Fact, Truth of feeling " where the author draws parallels between the technology of writing and a futuristic technology of indexed memory video logs. The parallels drawn are amazing to the extents of highlighting the pros and cons of each of the tools with amazing literary devices. Writing in a way is an augmentation to the mind, almost like how external memory can be used to log our lives . The constraints of language has been very beautifull