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Universal Love: Stories
Universal Love: Stories | Alexander Weinstein
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A hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World. Universal Love welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother's hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed. In an age when technology offers the easiest cures for loneliness, the characters within these stories must wrestle with what it means to stay human in an increasingly cybernetic future, and how love can endure even the most alluring upgrades. In the vein of Weinstein's critically-acclaimed first collection, Universal Love is a visionary book, written with one foot in the real world and one stepping bravely into the future.
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Universal Love: Stories | Alexander Weinstein
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I really love short stories. I struggle to read longer books sometimes but there's always room for a quick read, and then another and another! Stories that manage to capture my heart and subsequently my tears in under 30 pages have my #universallove ❤️🧡💛💚💜🥰 #shortstories #scifi

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I was thrilled to see a new title by Weinstein. The speculative stories in UNIVERSAL LOVE imagine how future technology will impact humanity. This collection was everything I love in speculative fiction: character-driven while still giving me that "must find out what happens next" feeling, futuristic technology that seems not too far away, and social commentary that relates to us today, giving me plenty to chew on after I've put the book down.

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4🌟Out Jan 21! Thought provoking collection set in the near future, focuses on technologies that radically alter our ability to love one another. Well written, sharing similar themes/tones, lonliness and loss of personal connections, hitting hard emotionally. Realistic almost scifi storylines were and could one day be a reality, like eerie cautionary tales. Some technology helps us and some hurts us, where do we draw a line and find balance?

teainthelibrary Love that plant and its pot! 4y
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Just got this galley...yay! I loved CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD, and couldn‘t be more excited for this!