Frankenstein Unbound
Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction...
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Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction may as easily have congress as Bodenland himself manages to make love to Mary Shelley. This title was made into a film, starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric and Michael Hutchence.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780755100699 (0755100697)
Publish date: July 1st 2002
Publisher: House of Stratus
Pages no: 202
Edition language: English
My first experience of Brian Aldiss was the short story collection, The Moment of Eclipse. I thought it was fantastic, the only such collection I had ever come across that could rival Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man for short story telling genius. Naturally I looked for more Aldiss. I found the...
Maybe I'll appreciate this more once I've read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein (on my to read pile).---Ok, now I've read "Frankenstein", I probably need to re-read this because I don't remember it that well. Not sure I'll ever get around to it though.
This is the book that the Roger Corman movie was (loosely) based on.I actually thought the film, although definitely a 'B-movie' did a better job in some respects of delineating the parallels between the sci-fi scenario that Aldiss sets up and the classic story of Frankenstein.In the 21st century, n...
The author believes Mary Shelly is the mother of the science fiction genre, and in this odd novel Mary Shelly and her family and friends (including the poets Byron and Shelly) live in the same world as Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. A time traveler falls in love with Mary and it just gets weirde...
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