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’s Frankissstein: A Love Story is a wildly inventive reimagining of one of science fiction’s most beloved stories.
Published a year after the bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the novel offers parallel stories of “future fear”. One is a fragmented, fictionalised account of Shelley’s life set against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution and its attendant horrors. In it, Mary Shelley’s stepsister Claire Clairmont taunts her…
