ISBN: 9781250098993
Editorial: Picador
Autor: Weinstein, Alexander
Año de edición: 2016
Edición: 1
N° Páginas: 240
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Biografía del autor Alexander Weinstein is the author of the critically acclaimed Children of the New World and the director of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Among his many publications, his fiction was awarded the Lamar York Prize and the Gail Crump Prize, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has been collected in the anthology 2013 New Stories from the Midwest. He is a professor of creative writing at Siena Heights University and a lecturer at the University of Michigan. 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 ElevenChildren 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. Críticas "A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined." --Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven"Taken together, these stories present a fully-imagined vision of the future which will disturb you, provoke you, and make you feel alive. Weinstein is brilliant, incisive and fearless, and I expect to be reading his work for years to come."--Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe"[A] funny, discomfiting, and excellent debut... Even with a cursory reading of current events, it's difficult to deny that Weinstein's new world is the one our children will grow up in, if not the one we are already living in. Don't let anyone tell you these stories aren't real."--David Burr Gerrard, Bomb Magazine Online"Increasingly, genre readers need to be on the lookout for intriguing new work from beyond the traditional SF sources. Alexander Weinstein's debut collection, Children of the New World, is a great example.... This is lovely work, real science fiction, interested in the near future effect of technological and social changes, and imaginative. Most of the SFnal ideas here are fairly familiar, but treated freshly and in a very contemporary context. The stories are well-written, the characters are believable and affecting, the tone ranges from quite comic to wistful to angry.... This is as fine a debut collection as I've seen in some time, and a book to read and celebrate."--Rich Horton, Locus"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
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Weinstein, Alexander
- Editorial: Picador
- N° Paginas: 240
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
