Frankisstein: A love story
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Genre: Sci-Fi, LGBT,
Original publication date: May 2019
Book Description (from Goodreads): In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI.
Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.
Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life.
But the scene is set in 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. ‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'
What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
Thoughts:
There is a story in a story so that thing annoys some people so be warned.
I actually liked the story inside the story much better. The story of Mary Shelly the 19-year girl and the man she is in love with, living with their friends. The main issue at the between the group is the behavior they have and the beliefs of men are inertly better and smarter than woman if they (women) don't get it, offers another proof of their intellectual inferiority. Again this is the purpose of the character, to be unlikable and have such a bad opinion on females. It is understandable so due to that personal irk of mine initially, that storyline was not something I wanted to read.
While the story inside the story begins in a very technologically advanced world where the boom is sex bots. It has a very interesting premise, but we get smaller bits compared to the Mary 19-year-old girl story.
IT does the switch at some point and as you are reading and being engrossed into the story it changes now to the other one, that was a bit irksome but you get used to it as the book progresses.
Warning: In the story of Victor and his monster, there is a trans character and not everyone is very smart about it, not even the chosen lover. Some actions against the character happen among them insults, rude dismissal of the choice of being nonbinary, people dismiss the fact of being trans, implying it a fashion choice or plain important. But more importantly, there is a sexual assault against them not very graphic and add it the fact that there is a sense of injustice and discrimination from the authority, so be aware of that.
Towards the end the story from Mary, starts to get better, she does not have a very great life, has a very good reason for it but she goes through a heavy depression and the people around her don't really help her out too much.
We still have the very closed-minded people annoying you coming in through all parts of the book, and the "romances" here are definitely lacking, but they are the whole purpose to show the flaws everyone can have.
My main complaint, the story of Victor and his creation totally deserves to have been a story on its own and not having the option to see it fully is sad :(
Both stories are captivating, have interesting premises.
Worth reading!
Another warning, there is some use of religion here and it might be offensive or some people might not like the way God is portrayed in a bit towards the end of the story.
In the end gave this book 3.5 stars
Genre: Sci-Fi, LGBT,
Original publication date: May 2019
Book Description (from Goodreads): In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI.
Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.
Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life.
But the scene is set in 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. ‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'
What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
Thoughts:
There is a story in a story so that thing annoys some people so be warned.
I actually liked the story inside the story much better. The story of Mary Shelly the 19-year girl and the man she is in love with, living with their friends. The main issue at the between the group is the behavior they have and the beliefs of men are inertly better and smarter than woman if they (women) don't get it, offers another proof of their intellectual inferiority. Again this is the purpose of the character, to be unlikable and have such a bad opinion on females. It is understandable so due to that personal irk of mine initially, that storyline was not something I wanted to read.
While the story inside the story begins in a very technologically advanced world where the boom is sex bots. It has a very interesting premise, but we get smaller bits compared to the Mary 19-year-old girl story.
IT does the switch at some point and as you are reading and being engrossed into the story it changes now to the other one, that was a bit irksome but you get used to it as the book progresses.
Warning: In the story of Victor and his monster, there is a trans character and not everyone is very smart about it, not even the chosen lover. Some actions against the character happen among them insults, rude dismissal of the choice of being nonbinary, people dismiss the fact of being trans, implying it a fashion choice or plain important. But more importantly, there is a sexual assault against them not very graphic and add it the fact that there is a sense of injustice and discrimination from the authority, so be aware of that.
Towards the end the story from Mary, starts to get better, she does not have a very great life, has a very good reason for it but she goes through a heavy depression and the people around her don't really help her out too much.
We still have the very closed-minded people annoying you coming in through all parts of the book, and the "romances" here are definitely lacking, but they are the whole purpose to show the flaws everyone can have.
My main complaint, the story of Victor and his creation totally deserves to have been a story on its own and not having the option to see it fully is sad :(
Both stories are captivating, have interesting premises.
Worth reading!
Another warning, there is some use of religion here and it might be offensive or some people might not like the way God is portrayed in a bit towards the end of the story.
In the end gave this book 3.5 stars
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