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Feb 4, 2017 · Southern Indiana Review. Pagination. 33-35. Date Published. Spring 2013. Keywords. Male author, US author. Annotation. Dystopia in which each year the children in a school choose one of their number to be fastened in a rocket and shot into space, the choice being the most unpopular child, and, in the story, the poorest child in the school.
A boy is chosen to be shipped off. The custodian has placed food and water in the rocket, and the children of the school forcefully place the unwilling boy into the rocket as well. Before taking off, the boy asks for one of his pencils, but the request is denied. He is launched off and the narrator forgets about the boy before nightfall.
Sep 12, 2016 · by Alexander Weinstein. It was Rocket Night at our daughter’s elementary school, the night when parents, students, and administrators gather to place the least-liked child in a rocket and shoot him into the stars. Last year we placed Laura Jackson into the capsule, a short, squat girl known for the limp dresses that hung crookedly on her body.
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Sep 13, 2016 · Alexander Weinstein’s collection of short stories, Children of the New World , presents a bleak, brilliant view of humanity fully in technology’s thrall.
He borrows from other authors, too: “Rocket Night” feels like a translation of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” and it’s clear that Weinstein is a George Saunders fan; we find echoes of Saunders’ satirical prose throughout the book. (Some bizarre, half-funny, half-terrifying lines echo Saunders stories, like “I Can Speak!”)
Alexander Weinstein's debut story collection is a harrowing vision of the near future as a place of both technological wonder and dysfunction — and a nuanced look at where humanity might be headed.
Children of the New World is a collection of science fiction short stories by Alexander Weinstein. Content ... "Rocket Night" "Openness"
