Catching crumbs from the table

short story first published on 01 June 2000 in Nature
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Catching crumbs from the table

Summary

Catching crumbs from the table is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (35 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Catching crumbs from the table authored Ted Chiang[3].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's genre is recorded as science fiction[5].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's DOI is recorded as 10.1038/35014679[6].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's publication date is recorded as +2000-06-01T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's PubMed publication ID is recorded as 10850694[9].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 9982574[10].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's ISFDB title ID is recorded as 100345[11].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's nominated for is recorded as Locus Award for Best Short Story[12].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's published in is recorded as Nature[13].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's published in is recorded as Stories of Your Life and Others[14].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's title is recorded as Catching crumbs from the table. In the face of metahuman science, humans have become metascientists[15].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's title is recorded as Catching Crumbs from the Table[16].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's NooSFere story ID is recorded as 56474[17].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's FantLab work ID is recorded as 10989[18].
  • Catching crumbs from the table's form of creative work is recorded as short story[19].

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Works and Contributions

Catching crumbs from the table authored Ted Chiang[3].

Why It Matters

Catching crumbs from the table ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (35 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Europe PubMed Central. Retrieved . ebi.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Europe PubMed Central. Retrieved . ebi.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Europe PubMed Central. Retrieved . ebi.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . sfadb.com. sfadb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Europe PubMed Central. Retrieved . ebi.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Europe PubMed Central. Retrieved . ebi.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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