Frankissstein: A Love Story

Jeanette Winterson’s highly anticipated new book, Frankissstein, explores the bodies we live in and desire.

Since her debut, Winterson has achieved critical and commercial success. Frankissstein is an audacious love story that weaves disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love.

In 1816, Mary Shelley is inspired to write about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, transgender doctor Ry falls in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, recently divorced, launches a sex doll company. Across the Atlantic, a cryogenics facility houses medically and legally dead bodies waiting to return to life. Winterson’s fiercely intelligent prose shows us how much closer we are to a future where humans are no longer the smartest beings.

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