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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9781250098993
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250098998
ISBN-13
9781250098993
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219134161
Product Key Features
Book Title
Children of the New World : Stories
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Literary
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-019224
Reviews
"A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined." --Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven "[Weinstein's] stories look like SF--consider the childless couple living in a virtual-reality community whose child there is wiped out by a computer virus--but read like literary fiction. Calling all fans of Margaret Atwood and Emily St. John Mandel." --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Prepub Alert "In Alexander Weinstein's debut collection, the future is a frightening and familiar place. Weinstein takes our uneasy truce with technology and blows it up, giving us child robots and ice worlds and the dark aftermath of failed revolutions. The collection is nothing short of a gorgeous new cold war, pitting us both with and against the science that threatens to become not-so-fictional every day." --Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World: And Other Stories, "A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined." --Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven "[Weinstein's] stories look like SF--consider the childless couple living in a virtual-reality community whose child there is wiped out by a computer virus--but read like literary fiction. Calling all fans of Margaret Atwood and Emily St. John Mandel." --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Prepub Alert "In Alexander Weinstein's debut collection, the future is a frightening and familiar place. Weinstein takes our uneasy truce with technology and blows it up, giving us child robots and ice worlds and the dark aftermath of failed revolutions. The collection is nothing short of a gorgeous new cold war, pitting us both with and against the science that threatens to become not-so-fictional every day."--Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World: And Other Stories, "A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined." --Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven "[Weinstein's] stories look like SF--consider the childless couple living in a virtual-reality community whose child there is wiped out by a computer virus--but read like literary fiction. Calling all fans of Margaret Atwood and Emily St. John Mandel." --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Prepub Alert
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Table Of Content
Saying Goodbye to Yang The Cartographers Heartland Excerpts from The New World Authorized Dictionary Moksha Children of the New World Fall Line A Brief History of the Failed Revolution Migration The Pyramid and the Ass Rocket Night Openness Ice Age
Synopsis
Selected by Electric Literature as one of the best short story collections of 2016 AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH- SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN Children 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 company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In "Saying Goodbye to Yang," the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become. Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon., Includes "After Yang," the basis for the acclaimed A24 film After Yang , starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Haley Lu Richardson, and directed by Kogonada. A New York Times Notable Book "A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined." --Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Children 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 company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In "After Yang," the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become. Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary and singular voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.
LC Classification Number
PS3623.E4324467A6
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