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020 $a9781250098993$qpaperback
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050 00 $aPS3623.E4324467$bA6 2016
082 00 $a813/.6$223
100 1 $aWeinstein, Alexander,$eauthor.
240 10 $aShort stories.$kSelections
245 10 $aChildren of the new world :$bstories /$cAlexander Weinstein.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPicador,$c2016.
264 4 $c©2016
300 $a229 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aSome stories previously published, some in a different form.
520 $aIntroduces 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.
505 00 $tSaying goodbye to Yang --$tThe cartographers --$tHeartland --$tExcerpts from The New World Authorized Dictionary --$tMoksha --$tChildren of the new world --$tFall line --$tA brief history of the failed revolution --$tMigration --$tThe pyramid and the ass --$tRocket night --$tOpenness --$tIce age.
650 0 $aTechnological innovations$vFiction.
650 0 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects$vFiction.
650 0 $aTechnology$xPsychological aspects$vFiction.
655 7 $aShort stories.$2lcgft
852 00 $bglx$hPS3623.E4324467$iA6 2016