Frankenstein Unbound | Frankenstein Unbound

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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

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...

Frankenstein Unbound | Frankenstein Unbound

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