The Stone Gods

<strong>The Whitbread Prize–winning author of <em>Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit </em>delivers a novel that “transports us to something like the future of our own planet” (<em>Washington Post Book World</em>).<br/><br/></strong>On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet—pristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. <br/><br/>Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet. <br/><br/>But when a technical maneuver intended to make it habitable backfires, Billie and Spike's flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant past, and they discover that “everything is imprinted forever with what once was.”