Winterson
Mera tips: gillar du Atwood (Oryx & Crake etc) tycker jag absolut att du ska spana in "Stengudarna" av Jeanette Winterson. Jag blev otroligt förtjust i den, hade bara önskat att den var längre, jag ville bara veta mer och mer och mer. Den svenska inbundna upplagan var 266 sidor. Översättningen var inte alls tokig, men hade jag vetat hur mycket jag skulle komma att tycka om historien så hade jag helt klart köpt den engelska originalupplagan direkt, nu lånade jag den svenska på bibblan.
Läs mer hos Winterson: http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=471
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This new world weighs a yatto-gram
The Stone Gods is written in four parts; The first part begins on Orbus, a world very like earth, and like earth running out of resources and suffering from the severe effects of climate change. This is a world where everyone is bio-enhanced and bored to death. It is a world that has run out of possibilities.
Then, a new planet is discovered, perfect for human life. This planet, Planet Blue, has only one drawback – the dinosaurs. A mission leaves Orbus to get rid of the dinosaurs.
Our guide through the novel is Billie Crusoe, a disillusioned scientist in Parts 1,3,4, and a young sailor, (Billy), in Part 2, which is set on Easter Island in the eighteenth century.
Billie is part of the mission to Planet Blue, and so is Spike, a perfect robo-sapiens. What happens between them explores the boundaries between carbon and silicon life forms – in other words, what is a human being, how do we define what is human, and how do we define what is love and what is possible when love is present?
Yes, it’s a love story along with a survival story. It’s the story of repeating worlds, repeating mistakes, chances for change.
This new world weighs a yatto-gram
The Stone Gods is written in four parts; The first part begins on Orbus, a world very like earth, and like earth running out of resources and suffering from the severe effects of climate change. This is a world where everyone is bio-enhanced and bored to death. It is a world that has run out of possibilities.
Then, a new planet is discovered, perfect for human life. This planet, Planet Blue, has only one drawback – the dinosaurs. A mission leaves Orbus to get rid of the dinosaurs.
Our guide through the novel is Billie Crusoe, a disillusioned scientist in Parts 1,3,4, and a young sailor, (Billy), in Part 2, which is set on Easter Island in the eighteenth century.
Billie is part of the mission to Planet Blue, and so is Spike, a perfect robo-sapiens. What happens between them explores the boundaries between carbon and silicon life forms – in other words, what is a human being, how do we define what is human, and how do we define what is love and what is possible when love is present?
Yes, it’s a love story along with a survival story. It’s the story of repeating worlds, repeating mistakes, chances for change.
Läs mer hos Winterson: http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=471
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