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Post by andydecker on Mar 24, 2022 10:30:00 GMT
C. Dean Andersson - I am Frankenstein (Zebra Books, 1996, 349 pages)
 Richard Newton This is Andersson's last novel done by Zebra. |
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Post by andydecker on Mar 25, 2022 9:08:13 GMT
Andersson wanted to do something different, and he did. In this Frankenstein – the real Frankenstein as the narrator, who shares the duty with the Monster - is the son of a shoemaker and his real name is Gunther Thunnar. And he becomes immortal and his most favorite Frankenstein movies at the time are Frankenhooker and Bride of Reanimator. (What the reader learns on page 13. It is one of those novels.) He starts as a boy-genius conducting experiments in a cave, when he is visited by young Katiasa, who is from the future (I guess) and is always quoting movies. She gives Frankensteins early creations - he gets frogs back from the dead - names like Frogenstein, when she is isn't telling Gunther about Monthy Python and Einstein. She is working for some secret Masters from outer space who take an interest in young Frankenstein.
When he first meets them in their UFO after the first third of the novel or so, I gave up. I don't know what the rest is about – except that the Monsters name is Anton Gorobec – and the most Gothic or Horror of this novel is the nice cover. Told in broad strokes in short chapters - mostly three to two pages - I think that blurb writer John Steakley should be at least mildly embarassed about his quote on the back-text. But it is possible that he originally meant one of Andersson's splatterpunk novels. |
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