diff --git a/s3fs/core.py b/s3fs/core.py
index d8837222..e1e5b4f3 100644
--- a/s3fs/core.py
+++ b/s3fs/core.py
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
 
 
 def setup_logging(level=None):
-
     setup_logger(logger=logger, level=(level or os.environ["S3FS_LOGGING_LEVEL"]))
 
 
@@ -165,8 +164,9 @@ def _coalesce_version_id(*args):
         version_ids.remove(None)
     if len(version_ids) > 1:
         raise ValueError(
-            "Cannot coalesce version_ids where more than one are defined,"
-            " {}".format(version_ids)
+            "Cannot coalesce version_ids where more than one are defined, {}".format(
+                version_ids
+            )
         )
     elif len(version_ids) == 0:
         return None
@@ -710,8 +710,7 @@ def _open(
         kw.update(kwargs)
         if not self.version_aware and version_id:
             raise ValueError(
-                "version_id cannot be specified if the filesystem "
-                "is not version aware"
+                "version_id cannot be specified if the filesystem is not version aware"
             )
 
         if cache_type is None:
@@ -1186,7 +1185,6 @@ async def _pipe_file(
             self.invalidate_cache(path)
             return out
         else:
-
             mpu = await self._call_s3(
                 "create_multipart_upload", Bucket=bucket, Key=key, **kwargs
             )
@@ -1266,7 +1264,6 @@ async def _put_file(
                 )
                 callback.relative_update(size)
             else:
-
                 mpu = await self._call_s3(
                     "create_multipart_upload", Bucket=bucket, Key=key, **kwargs
                 )
@@ -2161,7 +2158,7 @@ async def _invalidate_region_cache(self):
     async def open_async(self, path, mode="rb", **kwargs):
         if "b" not in mode or kwargs.get("compression"):
             raise ValueError
-        return S3AsyncStreamedFile(self, path, mode)
+        return S3AsyncStreamedFile(self, path, mode, **kwargs)
 
 
 class S3File(AbstractBufferedFile):
@@ -2515,19 +2512,28 @@ def _abort_mpu(self):
 
 
 class S3AsyncStreamedFile(AbstractAsyncStreamedFile):
-    def __init__(self, fs, path, mode):
+    def __init__(self, fs, path, mode, **kwargs):
         self.fs = fs
         self.path = path
         self.mode = mode
         self.r = None
-        self.loc = 0
-        self.size = None
+        self.loc = kwargs.get("loc", 0)
+        self.size = kwargs.get("size", None)
 
     async def read(self, length=-1):
         if self.r is None:
-            bucket, key, gen = self.fs.split_path(self.path)
-            r = await self.fs._call_s3("get_object", Bucket=bucket, Key=key)
-            self.size = int(r["ResponseMetadata"]["HTTPHeaders"]["content-length"])
+            bucket, key, _ = self.fs.split_path(self.path)
+            if self.size is None:
+                r = await self.fs._call_s3("get_object", Bucket=bucket, Key=key)
+                self.size = int(r["ResponseMetadata"]["HTTPHeaders"]["content-length"])
+            else:
+                r = await self.fs._call_s3(
+                    "get_object",
+                    Bucket=bucket,
+                    Key=key,
+                    Range="bytes=%i-%i" % (self.loc, self.loc + self.size - 1),
+                )
+
             self.r = r["Body"]
         out = await self.r.read(length)
         self.loc += len(out)
diff --git a/s3fs/tests/test_s3fs.py b/s3fs/tests/test_s3fs.py
index b8a22b27..ee0f7fc4 100644
--- a/s3fs/tests/test_s3fs.py
+++ b/s3fs/tests/test_s3fs.py
@@ -2772,6 +2772,34 @@ async def read_stream():
     assert b"".join(out) == data
 
 
+def test_async_stream_partial(s3_base):
+    fn = test_bucket_name + "/target"
+    data = b"hello world" * 1000
+    out = []
+
+    async def read_stream():
+        fs = S3FileSystem(
+            anon=False,
+            client_kwargs={"endpoint_url": endpoint_uri},
+            skip_instance_cache=True,
+        )
+        await fs._mkdir(test_bucket_name)
+        await fs._pipe(fn, data)
+        f = await fs.open_async(fn, mode="rb", loc=0, size=len(data) // 2)
+
+        while True:
+            got = await f.read(1000)
+            assert f.size == len(data) // 2
+            assert f.tell()
+            if not got:
+                break
+            out.append(got)
+
+    asyncio.run(read_stream())
+    assert len(b"".join(out)) == len(data) // 2
+    assert b"".join(out) == data[: len(data) // 2]
+
+
 def test_rm_invalidates_cache(s3):
     # Issue 761: rm_file does not invalidate cache
     fn = test_bucket_name + "/2014-01-01.csv"