At Lit Hub he tagged seven titles that "feature technology that’s not ready for primetime." One entry on the list:
Mary Shelley, FrankensteinRead about the other titles on the list.
One of the earliest and greatest stories about tech tinkering gone wrong, Mary Shelley’s book about a grad student who works through his grief by defying God, only to get sick and forget about the giant man that he created, is a classic of the “whoopsie, now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds” genre. Although to be fair, haven’t we all forgotten about some leftovers in the fridge, only to later find a whole Whoville of mold growing in there? Maybe we should go easier on self-driving car guys who are unleashing multi-ton unmanned and under-scrutinized cars onto our roads.
Frankenstein is among Rachel Harrison's seven novels that blend romance and body horror, Binnie Kirshenbaum's ten top books about vegetarians, Jeff Somers's top ten seemingly unrelated books that complement each other, Olivia Laing's top ten books about loneliness, Helen Humphreys's top ten books on grieving, John Mullan's ten best honeymoons in literature, Adam Roberts's five top science fiction classics and Andrew Crumey's top ten novels that predicted the future.
--Marshal Zeringue
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