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It is mainly a post apocalyptic love story concerned with corporate control of government, the harshness. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. An interplanetary love story, a travellers tale, a hymn to the beauty of the world, this is a novel that will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love and about stories themselves. It combines components of a romance novel with a post apocalypse work while still touching on the topics of how governments are controlled by large corporations, the damaging effects of war, the slow and steady dehumanization because of increasing technological use, and. Just in case the reader starts wondering what exactly this novel is about, the novel tells us. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Funny and furious, bold and clearsighted, frankissstein is a love story about life itself. The stone gods is one of jeanette winterson s most imaginative novels an interplanetary love story. Here, hard science and dreamy romanticism exist in both tension and harmony frankisstein abounds with invention this is a work of both pleasure and profundity, robustly and skilfully structured, and suffused with all winterson s usual preoccupations gender, language, sexuality, the limits of individual liberty and the life of ideas. What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet. And off the air, billie and spike are falling in love. Corporate dominance, an economy based on rental rather than ownership, technology which allows one to be fixed so that one doesnt age any.
Though not uniquely british, the notion that humans seem fated to eradicate themselveslike moths flinging themselves into the flame of apocalypsecertainly has a long history in the isles. I mean, jeanette winterson is a highlyregarded author in the uk and has written some excellent novels, but the stone gods reads like it was written by someone who thinks all literary sf should resemble david mitchells highly successful cloud atlas. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The stone gods was written by jeanette winterson and published in 2007. Sep 22, 2007 the stone gods by jeanette winterson 206pp, hamish hamilton. The stone gods by jeanette winterson overdrive rakuten. Enjoy this book on your ereader and in the format you prefer. It is alternate history and science fiction, looking ahead and back. The stone gods is a fourpart novel, with cleverly overlapping sections of the quest for new and old worlds. Pdf myths of the end and jeanette wintersons the stone gods.
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