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Children of the New World
Published 31 October 2016
ISBN 9781925498387
Format Paperback
Extent 240pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $26.00

Children of the New World

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31 Oct 2016
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Weinstein is a visionary new voice for anyone who is fascinated by - and terrified of - what we might find on the horizon.

A creator of virtual memories struggles to distinguish real-life experience from manufactured events. A childless couple conceive two children in an online world, only for their imagined life to be infected by a computer virus. The robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child 'dies', and a family realises how real a son he had become.

Alexander Weinstein's debut story collection, Children of the New World, imagines a near future of social-media implants and instant connection, environmental collapse and post-revolution discord. It grapples with our unease in the post modern world and how oure ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of out society.

Weinstein is a visionary new voice for anyone who is fascinated by-and terrified of-what we might find on the horizon.
Published 31 October 2016
ISBN 9781925498387
Format Paperback
Extent 240pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $26.00

About the author

Alexander Weinstein

Alexander Weinstein is the director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the author of Children of the New World, which was named a book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Google and Electric Literature. He is a recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and his fiction has been awarded the Lamar York, Gail Crump, Hamlin Garland, Etching's Whirling and New Millennium Prizes. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Siena Heights University and lives in Ann Arbor.
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Praise for Children of the New World

A dark mesmerising, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined

Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven

Scary, recognizable, heartbreaking, witty, and absolutely human…This is mind-bending stuff. Weinstein’s collection is full of spot-on prose, wicked humor, and heart.

Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

Each of the stories feels utterly possible, and the worlds are deftly rendered—whether they show us the effects of climate change or new types of sex made possible by advanced technology.

Kirkus Reviews

These stories are equally unnerving and tender, and a reminder that what we ultimately long for is human connection.

LitHub

Weinstein writes sensitively and with deceptive simplicity, slicing into the emotional core of his haunted, self-estranged characters. The more they connect via technology, the less connected they feel…Children of the New World is a nuanced and complex vision of where we as a species might be going — and how, for better and for worse, we’re already there.

NPR