Meet thy maker: Colin Clive and Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931) Universal Pictures/capital pictures
WHEN literary novelists try their hand at science fiction, the results can be mixed. Refreshingly, Jeanette Winterson鈥檚 Frankissstein: A Love Story is a wildly inventive reimagining of one of science fiction鈥檚 most beloved stories.
Published a year after the bicentenary of Mary Shelley鈥檚 Frankenstein, the novel offers parallel stories of 鈥渇uture fear鈥. One is a fragmented, fictionalised account of Shelley鈥檚 life set against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution and its attendant horrors. In it, Mary Shelley’s stepsister Claire Clairmont taunts her…
