Aldiss, with his masterpiece Frankenstein Unbound, obsessively revisits the concept of time. His starting point is the classic work of Mary Shelley, but the insightful Aldiss confronts us with eternal truths, using the hero of his work, who belongs to the 21st century, an era when time has been abolished by human arbitrariness. Science, creator and destroyer, is the fabric on which he weaves his myth.
Even today, when so much suffering is accumulating on the planet. when the threat of extinction looms over us, aren’t there still enough Frankensteins left around, uncontrolled?
