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Universal Love

Alexander Weinstein (2020)

SubgenreFantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages240 (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age16
Goodreads3.98/5 (764)

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentMild
LanguageMild

Protagonist archetypes

Multiple POVsEnsemble Cast

Synopsis

"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, these characters 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"--

Tags

Literary FictionScience FictionSpeculative FictionShort Story Collection