Literature is what distinguishes us from every species that has gone before. It’s what makes it possible for seven billion of us to breathe the same air. Literature is the great sum and sea of human experience, out there heaving serenely in the moonlight, ready for individuals, when it’s their time, to paddle out on their voyage of discovery.
What is happening here is the creation of what we might call “his-story”. If the only books talked about, the only books that find their way into the historical record, are books by men, then anyone looking back over time will get the impression that the only important people involved in the field, perhaps the only people involved in the field, were men.
Enter the Frankenverse! The historically-based novella tells the story of how Mary Shelley obtained her husband’s heart after it wouldn’t burn in his funeral pyre, and is related to novel-in-progress, The Frankenstein Singularity.
Nicholas Tana is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, producer, and musician. He is the creator of the graphic novel Hell’s Kitty, and his sci-fi noir graphic novel, eJUNKY, is being published September 18, 2023 by Simon and Schuster.
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