3.5
The Stone Gods
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On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet—pristine and habitable, like our own was sixty-five million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo
Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it inhabitable backfires, Billie and Spike's flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant past—"Everything is imprinted forever with what it once was." What will happen when their story combines with the world's story? Will they—and we—ever find a safe landing place?
Playful, passionate, polemical, and frequently very funny,
will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love, and about stories themselves.
"Scary, beautiful, witty and wistful by turns, dipping into the known past as it explores potential futures." —
"[A book] that you don't so much read as drink in, refuse to put down, cast inside of like a hunting dog, seeking against all odds the insight that will illuminate everything, a true answer to the fix we're in." —
"A vivid, cautionary tale—or, more precisely, a keen lament for our irremediably incautious species." —Ursula K. Le Guin, bestselling author of
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“<strong>Well written</strong>
While this isn't necessarily my cup of tea, the story was good and you can truly envision the story as it goes.”
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About Jeanette Winterson
Born in Manchester, England, Jeanette Winterson is the author of seventeen books, including the national bestseller
,
, and
. She has won many prizes including the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Stonewall Award.
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