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Though not uniquely british, the notion that humans seem fated to eradicate themselveslike moths flinging themselves into the flame of apocalypsecertainly has a long history in the isles. Lyrical, visionary, by turns funny and devastating, the stone gods is fiction at its most provocative. The stone gods by jeanette winterson harcourt, 224 pp. First of all, the stone gods foregrounds the futuristic conceptualization of embodiment and. Download the stone gods ebook in epub, mobi and pdf format. Pdf jeanette wintersons stone gods as transworld and. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. The stone gods jeanette winterson read online free books. 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 stone gods by winterson, jeanette, 1959publication date 2007 topics interplanetary voyages, science fiction.
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