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Author: Brian W. Aldiss
First Published: 1973
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Science fiction
Time of Work: 2020 and 1816
Setting: Texas and Switzerland
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

Joseph (Joe) Bodenland, a liberal presidential adviser deposed by right-wing extremists. He is transported by a timeslip from the twenty-first to the early nineteenth century. He is a grandfather but becomes young again when the timeslip takes him back to 1816. He finds himself at Lake Geneva, near the Villa Diodati, where he meets Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley’s mistress, Mary, who is in the process of writing the novel Frankenstein. Attracted to Mary, he has a brief affair with her. Having come from the future, Bodenland can...

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