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as characters make inter-textual references, while certain characters’ story arcs repeat. The novel aims to warn against history's tendency to repeat itself, as well as humanity's inability to learn from past mistakes.
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love story, with themes of corporate government control, the harshness of war, artificial intelligence, and technology. The novel is
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Jeanette Winterson
Hamish Hamilton
ISBN
0-241-14395-0
Jeanette Winterson
post-apocalyptic
postmodern
dystopian
self-referential
terraform
Easter Island
moai
World War III
Ursula Le Guin
Andrew Milner
doomer
climate fiction
"She, Robot"
"The Stone Gods Book Review"
""A Repeating World": Redeeming the Past and Future in the Utopian Dystopia of Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods"
"The Stone Gods Summary | GradeSaver"
"Review: The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson"
"The Hottest New Literary Genre Is 'Doomer Lit'"
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See guidelines for writing about novels
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