![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Post-3War" – set in "Tech City" after World War III, with Billie educating Spike, the Robo sapiens."Easter Island" – set in the 18th century, a time when Easter Island's inhabitants destroyed many of the moai statues (and the last tree) on their island."Planet Blue" – set in a futuristic past, where humanity's destruction of its own homeworld, Orbus, seems to be fixed when they come across and terraform another viable planet.Īndrew Milner, a literary critic and author of Science Fiction and Climate Change, notes that this book is an early example of ' doomer' climate fiction. Ursula Le Guin, while criticizing exposition and sentimentality, thought the novel a worthwhile and cautionary tale. The novel aims mainly to warn against history's tendency to repeat itself, as well as humanity's inability to learn from past mistakes. Particularly those of a Robo sapien AI named Spike and her reluctant human companion, Billie. The novel is self-referential as characters make intertextual references, and cyclical as certain characters’ story arcs repeat. It is a post apocalyptic, postmodern, dystopic love story concerned with themes of corporate government control, the harshness of war, artificial intelligence and technology. The Stone Gods is a 2007 novel by Jeanette Winterson. ![]()
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