The Stone Gods
by Jeanette Winterson
Taste attributes: science fictionrobots/ai/spacedramaromancefresh & originalheavyimaginaryglossyemotive & stirringsocial commentaryall consuming questself destruction/implosion
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly science-fiction novel that is emotional, glossy and inventive. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.3 / 5
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About This Book
This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long-toed claw prints deep as nightmares, and there are rock pools in hand-hollows finned by invisible fish . . . Mankind has rendered it
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- Author
- Jeanette Winterson
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 224
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- Open Library
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