Living Next Door to the God of Love

by Justina Robson

Bantam Spectra, 453 pp, $13.00

Living Next Door to the God of Love is a novel by the author of Natural History.

Francine is a young runaway looking to find a definition of love she can trust. In Sankhara,, a Unity bubble world, she finds a palace where rooms are made of bone, flowers, and the hearts of heros. She finds a scientist mapping the human mind, a boyfriend, and Eros itself in the form of Jalaeka.

But not everyone loves The god of love. Unity is one who wants to assimilate Jalaeka and every other living soul in any universe. Can Love save the universe as the gods collide......?

Robson uses her world building as not only cosmologically correct science fantasy, but to expose the buried fears and desires of the human mind to the light of day. Ordinary Redemption in an extraordinary world with beautifully realized characters in a world vision that chills the soul. Another gotta have in the world of postmodern fantasy by a provocative and talented author . I’ll look forward to her next book. - Pam Allan