Living Next-Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson

Living Next-Door to the God of Love

by Justina Robson

Metropolis is a city of superheroes where you can become anyone you like - fight all day, party all night ... Sankhara is a universe where everything is remade by night, according to the inhabitants’ deepest, darkest dreams ... Koker Ai is a city of another time and space, where Intana, courtesan to the court of a decaying empire, has just discovered a warrior who cannot die ...

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 that can duel a god, for the all-powerful entity which created him is coming to take him back.

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 a scientist looking for the lost light of the universe. She finds herself at the centre of an unstoppable conflict that began long before she was born.

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In this interwoven story that follows on from Natural History it tells of what happens to unity when it starts to fully interact with humanity and humanity's liking for individuality.
Unity is a fact, it's spreading, consciously and unconsciously. Jalaeka is a consciousness that has hived itself off from the unity and is trying to stay independent. Unity wants it back, but does it really and is it prepared for what will happen when two powerful entities go head to head.
Surreal and mythic it's a little too scattered for my taste but an interesting read all the same.

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