The Stone Gods - Jeanette winterson

This was a lovely read. It reminded me of works by David Mitchell, with the three stories in different eons and places and connected by books and manuscripts handed on in the story. The first story is about a people and a robo sapiens setting out to a new planet, planet Blue, while their own planet is dying due to to heavy use of the planet. The second story is set on Easter Island, that is on the brink of collapsing due to to heave use of resources. The third and fourth story are set in the distance future on Earth where the new robo sapiens is learning to be a oracle for human questions.
It looks like a SF story about humans conflict with its environment, but in the end it is a story about humanity and human feelings.

Lonelines isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Lonelines is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can get back there.
But I never found a place to land.

It is also a retelling of Robinson Crusoe.

I marked a lot of other quotes I found funny or notable, thoughts about our relationship with animals, robots and humanity, men and women, or just plain funny.

But any of us who is older must somehow for the War into lives that also existed before the war.

Do you [men] ever think about a world where there are no grown women at all? Just little girls?

In fact, I am depressed which is pretty much illegal.

'Humans share 97% of there genetic material with apes,' said Spike, 'But they feel no kinship.'

'Dinosaurs will depress the house prices.'

'Stories are always true,' said Handsome. 'It is the facts that mislead.'

Now that we are in space I feel much better. I think maybe I was allergic to gravity. It is kind of flattening.

In the days before we invented spacecraft, we dreamed of flying saucers, but what we build were rockets: fuel-greedy, ineffecient and embarassingly phallic.

'You are a robot,' I said [...].
'And you are a human being - but I don't hold that against you.'

'I never heard of an activistic robot'

Maybe I could [...] Maybe if I had [...] Maybe if I met [...] The maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

'But economics of purpose is not about making money; it is about realigning recources.'
'Isn't language wonderful?'

It says on my timesheet today is for mobile data recognition.'
'What is that?'
'We're going for a walk.'

I had a great time with the novel.