The Stone Gods

206 pages

English language

Published Nov. 29, 2007 by Hamish Hamilton.

ISBN:
978-0-241-14395-7
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OCLC Number:
124025319

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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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Second Reading

Wonderful. Winterson claims that the mind can't tell the difference between the past and future. Only now and not now. And the story goes round and round and round.

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Subjects

  • Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction