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An extraordinarily resonant and prophetic assortment of speculative brief fiction for our tech-savvy era by debut writer Alexander Weinstein. Children of the New World presents listeners to a near-future world of public media implants, storage manufacturers, dangerously immersive online reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters stay in a utopian future of instant interconnection and scientific gratification that belies an unbridgeable people distance while some inhabit a postcollapse surroundings made primitive by catastrophe, that they must work to rebuild, even as once does millennia ago. In "The Cartographers", the key identity works for a company that creates and offers virtual recollections while struggling to keep up a real-world romantic relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own masterpieces. In "Saying Goodbye to Yang", the robotic sibling of an implemented Chinese language child malfunctions, and only in his lack will the family realize how real a child he has become. Children of the New World grapples with this unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new solutions has modified the shape of our own society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new tone of voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we may find on the horizon.
