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Universal Love : Stories - Alexander Weinstein

Universal Love

Stories

By: Alexander Weinstein

Hardcover | 1 February 2020

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A wonderfully inventive, bighearted collection of stories from the author of Children of the New World

A son and his father find music in a drowned city. A daughter gets to know her dead mother's hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. A man is given a choice to have his trauma surgically removed. A lonely twenty-something gets addicted to comfort porn. In these resonant, speculative stories about the human soul's resilience amid rapidly progressing technological advancement, Alexander Weinstein writes about a series of worlds like our own, but rife with the possibilties that our present timeline hasn't led us to--yet.

In the vein of his critically acclaimed first collection, Children of the New World, and a kindred spirit to the work of George Saunders and Ted Chiang and the television show Black Mirror, Universal Love is a prescient, compassionate book, written with one foot in the real world and one stepping bravely, and hopefully, out into the future.

Industry Reviews

Praise for Universal Love:

"Funny and terrifying. . . .Universal Love picks up where [Children of the New World] left off."
--Ann Arbor Observer

"Weinstein made a big splash in SF with his debut collection and follows it up with nearly a dozen stories that are just as creepy and will fit right in if you're watching Black Mirror. . . .In dark times, we get entertainment that reflects the world we've made. Welcome home."
--Kirkus

"Troubling and compassionate . . . .Channeling Ray Bradbury with contemporary allegories, Weinstein will make readers think twice about their relationship to technology."
--Publishers Weekly


"These are deeply imaginative and compelling stories, written with exquisite poise, that bring the speculative and uncanny very close to home. Weinstein is here to remind us that questions of technology, of the future of our world, are also, always, questions of human intimacy and human care."
--Jennifer Mills, author of Dyschronia


Praise for Alexander Weinstein:


"The timely, nuanced stories in Alexander Weinstein's Children of the New World are some of the most brilliantly disconcerting fiction in recent memory...As with George Saunders or Ray Bradbury, Weinstein's satiric ingenuity seldom overpowers his deep compassion for our wayward species....The resulting cautionary tales are superlatively moving and thought-provoking, imbued with disarming pathos and a palpable sense of wonder and loss."
--David Wright, The Seattle Times


"Seductive...Weinstein's stories whistle with a cockeyed, formidable intelligence, and he is not afraid to provoke.... At their finest, Mr. Weinstein's stories contain moments of moral complexity and, even more challenging--and more moving--moments of grace."
--The New York Times


"A darkly comic look at how far people will go to hold on to the devices that are replacing human experience."
--The Washington Post

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