The stone gods

By Jeanette Winterson

Subjects: FICTION / General, Science fiction, Space colonies, British literature, Ecology, Romans, nouvelles, Romance fiction, Literary, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Space and time, Robots, Voyages interplanétaires, Interplanetary voyages

Description: This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long-toed claw prints deep as nightmares, and there are rock pools in hand-hollows finned by invisible fish . . . Mankind has rendered it