Описание: Children of the New World introduces readers to lost characters in a near-future of social media software implants, manufacturers of memories, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and frighteningly intuitive androids. Some of these characters live in a superficially utopian future of instant connection and mutual understanding that belies an unbridgeable 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 attempting to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by his addiction to his own creations. In Saying Goodbye to Yang, the robotic older brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become.
Children of the New World grapples with our unease with the modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies changes the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice in speculative fiction for a generation both fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.
