Frankenstein Unbound (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian W. Aldiss
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The years 2020 and 1816
- Setting: Texas and Switzerland
- Principal Characters: Joseph “Joe” Bodenland, Victor Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Frankenstein monster, The monster’s Mate, Elizabeth Lavenza, Justine Moritz
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Folkloric or magical people, Nineteenth century, Literature, Future, Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Religion, West, U.S., Time travel, Fantasy, Texas, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Horror, Technology, Monsters, Switzerland or Swiss people
- Locales: Texas, Geneva, Switzerland
The Novel
Frankenstein (1818), which can be considered the first real science-fiction novel, is subtitled “The Modern Prometheus.” Its author, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, was the mistress and later the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the Romantic poet who wrote Prometheus Unbound (1820) and who was in part the model for Victor Frankenstein. In Frankenstein Unbound, Brian W. Aldiss combines the titles of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s books and sends a time traveler from the twenty-first century back to Geneva in 1816, when Mary was engaged in writing...
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