The Stone Gods
Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods is a story about Earth, about love, and about stories themselves. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet—pristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago, before we took...
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Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods is a story about Earth, about love, and about stories themselves. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet—pristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien 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 habitable backfires, Billie and Spike's flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant past, and they discover that “everything is imprinted forever with what once was.” (20080124)
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780151014910 (0151014914)
Publish date: April 1st 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Very Atwood-esque dystopia/speculative fiction about society run amok, mixing a love story, a war story and a lot of musing about humans' relationships with the Earth. It's prescient and a little bit scary; it's also heavy-handed and lecturing, and silly where it's supposed to be serious. Not my fav...
"all this has happened before and all of it will happen again"i was not expecting this book to have so many themes in common with battlestar galactica. BUT I LOVE THAT IT DOES.the jumps from one "reality" to the next were also unexpected and when i hit the second part i was like wtf is this but then...
Any Winterson is a treat, though not necessarily fully intelligible. A lot about this sort-of-science-fiction novel made me laugh, not least of which was the core story in which all of the intrepid explorers, whom the reader might expect will be the new hope of humanity, die. The core narrative, tho...
I wasn't totally bowled over by anything in this book, though the structure was interesting and the plot diverting. It kept my attention and amused me, although I wasn't expecting a detour to Easter Island for the second section of the tale.
It's uneven. The first 98 pages would have made a fine novella, and I'm sad it didn't stop there. The rest of the book is brilliant in the way that Jeanette Winterson is brilliant, and the very end of the book is also interesting. Ultimately this is disappointing to me, and I think will be disappoin...
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