"Openness"

Year for Search
2016
Secondary Title
BFJ: Beloit Fiction Journal
Author
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The story presents a future, with both eutopian and dystopian elements, in which everyone is connected all the time but can limit the layers of themselves they expose. 

Volume / Edition
29
Pagination
1-9
Published Date

2016

ISBN Number
9781616962913
Keywords
Full Text

2016 Weinstein, Alexander. “Openness.” BFJ: Beloit Fiction Journal 29 (2016): 1-9. Rpt. Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 183-99; in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 141-51; and in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 1-13.

The story presents a future, with both eutopian and dystopian elements, in which everyone is connected all the time but can limit the layers of themselves they expose. The story won the Hamlin Garland Award for the Short Story. The author is Director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

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Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 183-99; and in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 141-51; and in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 1-13.

Info Notes

The story won the Hamlin Garland Award for the Short Story.

Author Note

The author is Director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

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