Frankissstein
内容简介
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI.
Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.
Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life.
But the scene is set in 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. ‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'
What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
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作者简介
Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.
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读书文摘
什么是理智？他说，你能告诉我吗？贫困、疾病、全球变暖、恐怖主义、专制独裁、核武器、极端不平等、厌女、仇视异己。
我们的第一个孩子一出生就死了。我把他冷冰冰的小身体抱在怀里。不久我就梦到他没死，我们在他身上抹上白兰地，把他放在火边，他就复活了。 我想触摸的是他小小的身体。我宁愿把我的血给他换他重生；他曾是我的血肉，一个吸血鬼，在不见天日的九个月里，躲在他的巢穴里进食。死者。不死者。哦，我见惯了死亡，恨透了死亡。
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