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Publication date 2007 ISBN 0-241-14395-0 Publisher Hamish Hamilton | 3.7/5 Goodreads Pages 224 Originally published 2007 Page count 224 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Awards Ictineu Prize for best work of fiction translated into Catalan Similar Jeanette Winterson books, Science Fiction books |
The Stone Gods is a 2007 novel by Jeanette Winterson. It is mainly a post apocalyptic love story concerned with corporate control of government, the harshness of war, and the dehumanization that technology brings, among other themes. The novel is self-referential, where later characters in the story find and read earlier sections of the book itself, and where certain sets of characters’ story arcs repeat, particularly those of a Robo 'Sapien' named Spike and her reluctant human companion, Billie. This technique sets the book in the postmodernist genre, though it is mainly used to warn against history’s tendency to repeat itself, as well as humanity’s inability to learn from past mistakes, even when these mistakes repeat across history, planets, and their respective evolutionary timelines.