The Stone Gods is a 2007 novel by Jeanette Winterson. The novel is a post-apocalyptic, postmodern, dystopic love story with themes of corporate government control, the harshness of war, artificial intelligence and technology.
The novel is self-referential as characters make intertextual references while certain characters’ story arcs repeat. The novel aims mainly to warn against history’s tendency to repeat itself, as well as humanity’s inability to learn from past mistakes.
A glimpse into unlikely love braved in the face of the void. 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. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love.
What will happen when their story combines with the world’s story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Will they-and we-ever find a safe landing place?
Of immense imaginary and emotional scope, The Stone Gods is Jeanette Winterson at her prescient, playful, muscular best. An interplanetary love story, a traveller’s tale, a hymn to the beauty of the world, this is a novel that will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love and about stories themselves.
