Discussions, Short Stories, and Sci-Fi Literature. Love, Words, Power. Well Just Get Rid of Them Then. Posted February 13, 2010 by loved82press. Explores alternate universes through the eyes of four women with the same DNA yet existing in different times. Posted February 6, 2010 by loved82press. Fowler is careful to point out to the reader, obvious se.

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson is a novel about how we define a human, among other things. Billie, the protagonist, is in charge of taking care of Spike, the Robo-. First off, is Spike human? Do machines have souls? Spike and Billie are very different in the biological aspect, but are similar in the mental and personhood aspect. 8 years, 1 month ago. 8 years, 1 month ago. 8 years, 1 month ago.

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Is a novel which takes many risks by questioning themes such as education, censorship, sex, and even religion. Although all these topics were crucial to the novel, the contrast between the rural and urban society in the novel is the foundation of. 5 years, 5 months ago. 5 years, 5 months ago. While finishing the novel, I continuously compared Whileaway to the utopian community Mattapoisett in Woman on the Edge Time.

The world is coming to an end and all our fault! I believe that is what Jeanette Winterson is trying to depict in her novel. there is some sexed up 16 year girl.

As technology advances every day in our modern society, the distinction between humans and machines blurs. Science fiction authors have the perfect genre to toy with this fuzzy boundary. Jeanette Winterson uses her genre perfectly to bring to the forefront of her story the issue of what we define as a human by bringing us Orbus, a future society in which everything is technologically perfect, including people, a society shared with Robo.