Tor's edition of this classic horror story will accompany the Francis Ford Coppola film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein--a major motion picture release scheduled for Christmas 1994, starring Robert DeNiro. At last, the world's most famous monster tells his own story of his creation.
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This novel picks up where Mary Shelley's classic tale left off, continuing the narrative from the monster's point of view. Through flashbacks in the monster's journal, Saberhagen also rescrambles the original story in such a way that the monster is absolved of the murders of Victor Frankenstein's brother William and fiancee Elizabeth. The monster sets off on a quest for his own identity that takes him from the Arctic and his first sexual experience with an "Esquimeaux" to a meeting in Paris with Ben Franklin, whose experiments with electricity led Frankenstein to attempt the monster's initial animation. Throughout, the irrationality of the monster's sheer existence is set against the values and science of Enlightenment Europe. In the tour-de-force ending, rationality triumphs by means of a neat science-fiction twist. February
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Hear the monster's side of the story, very well written,
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This review is from: The Frankenstein Papers (Paperback)
There are many stories that have used the Frankenstein electrical reanimation plot, no matter how unbelievable. This is very well written, as a journal by the monster himself. This is definitely one for those books you will have trouble putting down. An Extra note: There is a reference that the Francis Ford Coppola movie was based on Saberhagen's book but it is not; it is true to the original of Mary Shelley
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