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Universal Love: Stories by Alexander Weinstein
4.0
This is an engaging and thought provoking story collection set in the near future. A facinating premis on technologies that radically alter our ability to love one another.
Technology is so easily accessible and always evolving, so the idea behind these stories was an instant draw for me, very futuristic, they didn't dissapoint!
My favorite story was about two sisters seeking to comfort their father in the wake of their mothers death. The "Nostalgia App" takes their old feeds and creates a hologram of their mother. This takes the one sister on a journey to knowing her mother better and unearth a new revelation.
All these stories are well written, sharing similar themes and tones, of lonliness and loss of personal connections, and they all hit hard emotionally. I think what captured me the most was how realistic these almost scifi storylines were and could one day be a reality, like eerie cautionary tales. Some technology helps us and some hurts us. It can already limit our personal face to face interactions, relationships and intimacies so where do we draw a line and find balance?
This is a collection I will not soon forget!
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Thank You to the tagged publisher for sending me this book opinions are my own.
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For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong
Technology is so easily accessible and always evolving, so the idea behind these stories was an instant draw for me, very futuristic, they didn't dissapoint!
My favorite story was about two sisters seeking to comfort their father in the wake of their mothers death. The "Nostalgia App" takes their old feeds and creates a hologram of their mother. This takes the one sister on a journey to knowing her mother better and unearth a new revelation.
All these stories are well written, sharing similar themes and tones, of lonliness and loss of personal connections, and they all hit hard emotionally. I think what captured me the most was how realistic these almost scifi storylines were and could one day be a reality, like eerie cautionary tales. Some technology helps us and some hurts us. It can already limit our personal face to face interactions, relationships and intimacies so where do we draw a line and find balance?
This is a collection I will not soon forget!
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Thank You to the tagged publisher for sending me this book opinions are my own.
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For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong