Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (2017)
The 1818 text with notes on the science and the responsibility of making things.
Victor is a researcher who makes something and walks away from it. Read the novel with notes from people who make things for a living.
You make things for a living, in a lab or at a keyboard, and you want to read the novel as a story about the person responsible.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the 1818 text.
Changes: the notes, which are about the science of Shelley’s day, the ethics of creating, and what the novel asks of anyone who builds something new. Edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert.
Whose story is it?
Victor’s, read as a story about the person responsible.
How much time does it ask?
320 pages in paperback, from the MIT Press.
The MIT Press, paperback, 5 May 2017, 320 pages. A free online edition is linked from Arizona State University’s Frankenstein project.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More Frankensteins: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics) · Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Oxford World’s Classics) · The Norton Critical Edition, third edition