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Living Next Door To The God Of Love

Following on from her brilliant previous novel, Natural History, Justina Robson again takes into a series of worlds and dimensions we would have never thought of on our own Metropolis is a city of superheroes where you can become anyone you like - fight all day, party all night...
Jalaeka has been many things in his short lifetime: a war captive, a prostitute, a pilgrim, a pirate, a princess in a glass coffin and a physics student at MIT. Now he's looking for someone to make him into something better, for the entity which created him is coming to take him back. It has consumed a million worlds, a billion lifeforms. It's power is unrivalled, its evolution relentless.
Francine is a fifteen-year-old runaway, out to find a definition of love she can believe in. She finds a Palace whose rooms are made of bone, flowers and the hearts of heroes. She finds herself at the centre of an unstoppable conflict that began long before she was born.

To be published autumn 2005 in UK and USA

Reviews

Macmillan (UK) Bantam (USA): "Now out in the UK. Published in the USA in April 2006 USA. First review out now at Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City site: http://www.emcit.com/emcit121.php#Beyond"

Roz Kaveney, Time Out (London): "" A sequel to Justina Robson's excellent 'Natural History' but a very different book in its charm, pathos and phantasmagoric imagery.""

Tanya Brown, in Strange Horizons: "Robson's supreme strength as a writer of science fiction has always been her ability to create characters whose point of view offers a new perspective on the world in which they exist and act. In Living Next-Door to the God of Love, she handles her characters' voices with confidence and wit, weaving together multiple stories to produce an elaborate whole that's somehow, finally, compacted into a simple seed, a timeless myth of death and resurrection. "

Dave Itzkoff, New York Times : ""...read, and then cherish... "

"...nothing short of a modern-day fairy tale..."

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