These are novels that Christian readers with a taste for Fantasy/Science Fiction ought to run out and get. Through no fault of his own, he is certain. And, as a side-benefit, serve him unquestioningly.Įxcept… the members of his New Race have been showing an irritating tendency to get out of control. Frankenstein’s intention to destroy mankind, replacing it with a “perfect,” biologically engineered population which will live up to his high standards. (Well, we always knew the monster was the more human one, didn’t we?)īecause it’s Dr. Frankenstein’s individual victims, but of mankind as a whole. Now it’s the scientist who is the monster, and the monster who stands as the protector-not only of Dr. Frankenstein now lives the life of a biotech millionaire and VIP, under a new name. When he does learn this, the monster leaves the monastery and travels to New Orleans, where Dr. Frankenstein has survived the last two centuries as well, his life extended through a series of self-designed surgeries. At the start of Prodigal Son he is residing in a Tibetan monastery.

Instead, endowed with extremely long life through being struck by lightning during his creation, he has lived on, mostly in hiding because of a facial injury, gradually learning to control his rage.

The conceit in this series of books is that, although Mary Shelley’s famous novel is based on fact, she got the ending wrong. One assumes that the network execs either misunderstood his script, or understood it all too well, since both parties agreed to go their own ways in the end, each party producing a Frankenstein after their own heart. A few years back, as Dean Koontz explains in an introduction to the first book of this series, Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, he made a deal with the USA Network to write a contemporary television series based on the characters of the old Frankenstein book.

City of Night by Dean Koontz