2020/046: Frankissstein -- Jeanette Winterson

2020/046: Frankissstein -- Jeanette Winterson

You have appeared in the pages of a novel, she said. You and the monster you created. I am the monster you created, said Victor Frankenstein. I am the thing that cannot die – and I cannot die because I have never lived. [loc. 2198]

In 1816, a young woman is spending time with her husband, her step-sister, her step-sister's lover and his doctor in an Italian villa. Confined by appalling weather (this is the Year Without a Summer), they challenge one another to write ghost stories ...

In contemporary, or near-future, America, Dr Ry Shelley is attending a conference on robotics and artificial intelligence.( vague spoilers for elements, not plot )

Is Donald Trump getting his brain frozen? asks Ron. Max explains that the brain has to be fully functioning at clinical death. [loc. 2301]