{"product_id":"9781250144362","title":"Universal Love : Stories","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eUniversal Love\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Alexander Weinstein\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of \u003ci\u003eChildren of the New World\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversal Love \u003c\/i\u003ewelcomes 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the vein of Weinstein’s critically-acclaimed first collection, \u003ci\u003eUniversal Love \u003c\/i\u003eis a visionary book, written with one foot in the real world and one stepping bravely into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for \u003c\/i\u003eUniversal Love:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Funny and terrifying. . . .\u003ci\u003eUniversal Love\u003c\/i\u003e picks up where [\u003ci\u003eChildren of the New World\u003c\/i\u003e] left off.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Ann Arbor Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e. . . .In dark times, we get entertainment that reflects the world we’ve made. Welcome home.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Troubling and compassionate . . . .Channeling Ray Bradbury with contemporary allegories, Weinstein will make readers think twice about their relationship to technology.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Jennifer Mills, author of \u003ci\u003eDyschronia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for Alexander Weinstein: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The timely, nuanced stories in Alexander Weinstein’s \u003ci\u003eChildren of the New World \u003c\/i\u003eare 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.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--David Wright, \u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A darkly comic look at how far people will go to hold on to the devices that are replacing human experience.\"\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250144362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40823026090190,"sku":"9781250144362","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_f3345c87-ebdd-4139-9e51-cd2b73412f89.jpg?v=1643098638","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250144362","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}