Frankenstein Unbound, Brian W. Aldiss
Frankenstein Unbound, Brian W. Aldiss
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Frankenstein Unbound

Author: Brian W. Aldiss

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/24/2024


Synopsis

Some years into the twenty-first century, a newly devised weapon of mass destruction will do far worse than kill; it will disrupt time and space. Suddenly, land, buildings, animals, and people are falling through "timeslips" and being transported briefly back to earlier eras. One of these inadvertent time travelers, Joe Bodenland, is shocked when he finds himself parked outside a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva—and soon after, unbelievably, in the presence of nineteenth-century literary luminaries Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, along with Shelley's very enticing fiancée, budding author Mary.

But when Joe comes face to face with a real, flesh-and-blood Victor Frankenstein and the monster the mad doctor brought into this world, the visitor from the future realizes that not only has time been disrupted, reality itself has been transmogrified. And this Frankenstein, it seems, is far from finished with his unholy endeavors, leaving it up to Joe to make it right for the sake of history—and for the bewitching lady novelist who has stolen his heart—before he is rudely thrust back to his own time.

An absolutely stunning reinvention of a cherished literary classic, Frankenstein Unbound proves once more that there are no limits to the unparalleled creative genius of science fiction Grand Master W. Brian Aldiss.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on September 10, 2018

”The monster at my feet said, ‘This I will tell you, and through you, all men, if you are deemed fit to rejoin your kind: that my death will weigh more heavily upon you than my life. No fury I might possess could be a match for yours. Moreover, though you seek to bury me, yet will you continuously r......more

Goodreads review by Jayaprakash on July 27, 2009

Brian Aldiss has a mother complex. There's no other way to explain his novel FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND. In it, Joe Bodenland, a man from the 21st century slips back in time to the 19th century; specifically, to Switzerland, where he first meets Victor Frankenstein and his monster and then, after another d......more

Goodreads review by Wreade1872 on June 29, 2023

I'm really torn on this one.. but i'm going to give it 4-stars based almost entirely on the last 40% which is very compelling. This thing is just insane though. The first 40% is ok its a bit more focused on Dr. Frankenstein than the monster like i expected. The middle section is where the whole plot......more

Goodreads review by Althea on September 26, 2013

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......more

Goodreads review by Brenna on June 14, 2009

In the year 2020 (so begins Frankenstein Unbound), a great war has created cataclysmic conditions on Earth. Nuclear warfare between warring nations has created - not an uninhabitable world, but - a condition wherein so-called "timeslips" occur. That is, the inhabitants of 2020 find themselves thrust......more