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Frankissstein : a love story / Jeanette Winterson.

by Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-

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Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2019.

Transgender people -- Fiction.

Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects -- Fiction.

Sex dolls -- Fiction.

Cryonics -- Fiction.

Phoenix (Ariz.) -- Fiction.

9780735279698 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Fran kiss Stein

343 p. ; 22 cm.

"An audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire. 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, I have no fear, therefore I am powerful.' What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest thing on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself."--Publisher.

Experimental fiction.

Literary fiction.

Science fiction.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.

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