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Author | Jeanette Winterson |
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Publisher | Hamish Hamilton |
Publication date | 2007 |
Pages | 224 |
ISBN | 0-241-14395-0 |
The Stone Gods is a novel written by Jeanette Winterson. [1] [2] Published in the year 2007, the novel is a post-apocalyptic, postmodern, dystopian love story, with themes of corporate government control, the harshness of war, artificial intelligence, and technology. The novel is self-referential as characters make inter-textual references, while certain characters’ story arcs repeat. [3] The novel aims to warn against history's tendency to repeat itself, as well as humanity's inability to learn from past mistakes. [4]
Ursula Le Guin, while criticizing exposition and sentimentality, thought the novel a worthwhile and cautionary tale. [5]
Andrew Milner, a literary critic and author of Science Fiction and Climate Change, notes that this book is an early example of ' doomer' climate fiction. [6]