Frankenstein Unbound
Brian W. Aldiss,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Random House, Incorporated
Brian W. Aldiss,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Random House, Incorporated
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394490793 (0394490797)
Publish date: June 28th 1974
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Pages no: 212
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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