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How sci-fi like Frankissstein helps us face our fears of the future

In her monthly sci-fi column, Helen Marshall plumbs the mind's most gripping fictional futures in Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein and Ted Chiang's Exhalation

Mind 8 May 2019
Colin Clive and Boris Karloff
Meet thy maker: Colin Clive and Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931)

Universal Pictures/capital pictures

By Helen Marshall

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 …

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