β Scribed by Jeanette Winterson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The Whitbread Prizeβwinning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit delivers a novel that "transports us to something like the future of our own planet" (The Washington Post).
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planetβpristine and habitable, like our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade robo-sapian Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it inhabitable backfires, Billie and Spike's flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant pastβ"Everything is imprinted forever with what it once was." What will happen when their story combines with the world's story? Will theyβand weβever find a safe landing place?
Playful, passionate, polemical, and frequently very funny, The...
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