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The Stone Gods review

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the stone gods review

Doomed Android Love Story On Infinite Repeat

Some science fiction book lovers have a dark mythology in their heads about literary poaching: literary authors lift speculative ideas and themes, handle them clumsily, and then insult the genre they're pillaging. It's a paranoid fantasy, and mostly not true. But I have a feeling Jeanette Winterson's newest novel, The Stone Gods, will become something of a posterchild for that viewpoint. It's too bad, since once you get past Winterson's clumsiness around speculative themes, you find something stranger and more provocative than either SF or literature. Spoilers are in the offing. More »

12:40 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,956 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: Didn't i read somewhere that she had denied that it was Sf in the same way that Rowling denies thst HP is fantasy.Plus there is the fact that nobody has mentioned yet that the author is herself gay so is more »