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[Alexander Weinstein] ↠ Children of the New World: Stories ✓ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Children of the New World: Stories Maxed bag of near future stories Amanda Some of the stories are five star. Some are terrible. So I'm balancing it out with three stars. All of the stories are set in vaguely similar near future universes. Tendency to focus on sex and family relationships.. An absolutely amazing collection, but I have one qualm I haven't been this excited about reading a book in what feels like forever. I knew that I'd like this collection of short stories. It was pitched to me as akin to the TV show Black Mirror
| Title | : | Children of the New World: Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250098998 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEINChildren of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago.In “The Cartographers,” the main character works for a c
Weinstein’s collection is full of spot-on prose, wicked humor, and heart.”Publishers Weekly *STARRED REVIEW*“Missing the vague, futuristic dread you feel watching Black Mirror? Weinstein’s eerie sci-fi collectionfeaturing adopted robot children and the addictive fictional memory industryfills the void brilliantly.”EW.COM “15 Books You Have to Read in September”“These stories are equally unnerving and tender, and a reminder that what we ultimately long for is human connection.”Michele Filgate, Literary Hub “18 Books You Should Read This September”“A breath-catching in your throat collection…. Grab a glass of wine, cancel the meeting tomorrow morning, and settle down with this book. Weinstein deftly captures technology’s limi
He is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and his stories have received the Lamar York, Gail Crump, and New Millennium Prizes, have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and appear in the anthology New Stories from the Midwest. ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN is the director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He is an associate professor of creative writing at Siena Heights University and leads fiction workshop
Maxed bag of near future stories Amanda Some of the stories are five star. Some are terrible. So I'm balancing it out with three stars. All of the stories are set in vaguely similar near future universes. Tendency to focus on sex and family relationships.. An absolutely amazing collection, but I have one qualm I haven't been this excited about reading a book in what feels like forever. I knew that I'd like this collection of short stories. It was pitched to me as akin to the TV show Black Mirror, which I absolutely loved. And they weren't wrong about that. Here we have a collection of stories that are all speculative. Set in the very near future, things are just a little different from how they are now. People are a little more hooked into technology, the environment is in worse shape, etc. Our scenarios are set up quickly and with apparent ease, and we . “a comeback story without a comeback” Kelly Garbato “We were like babies. Like Adam and Eve, some said. We reached out toward one another to see how skin felt; we let our neighbors’ hands run across our arms. In this world, we seemed to understand, we were free to experience a physical connection that we’d always longed for in the real world but had never been able to achieve. Who can blame us for being reckless?”(“Children of the New World”)“Publicly, we sold memories under Quimbly, Barrett & Woods, but when it was just the three of us, working late into th
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