How does a sudden attack that puts a sword in your belly play from the inside? If you’d seen the blade properly would it be in your belly? Didn’t you see it properly a little too late, when it was up to the hilt? Shift that “blade” and we shift the awareness of it.
The status quo is segregation. It’s a state of segregation in which black, queer and members of other abject groups are not deemed to belong as main characters.
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.
Laurie Stevens is the author of the multi-award winning Gabriel McRay suspense series and The Return, a new sci-fi/fantasy that pits AI against human consciousness.
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