"Openness"

Title"Openness"
Year for Search2016
AuthorsWeinstein, Alexander
Secondary TitleBFJ: Beloit Fiction Journal
Volume / Edition29
Pagination1-9
Date Published2016
ISBN Number9781616962913
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

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. 

Additional Publishers

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.

Holding Institutions

PSt, Public

Author Note

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

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.