Frankenstein

In 1818, an 18-year-old woman named Mary Shelley invented science fiction.

She also, without knowing it, wrote the first warning about the dangers of creating life without accepting responsibility for it.

Frankenstein's monster is not the horror in this story. Victor Frankenstein is — a scientist so consumed by what he could create that he never once asked whether he should.

In 2024, as AI reshapes everything we thought we knew, Shelley's 200-year-old question has never felt more contemporary: What happens when we build something we don't understand, and then abandon it?

But Frankenstein is also a gripping, propulsive story that reads faster than most modern thrillers. It's told as a series of nested narratives — a ghost story within a ghost story — and every layer adds to the dread.

For readers who love sci-fi, gothic horror, or literary fiction. For anyone thinking about AI, technology, and ethics. For anyone who wants to read the original "created life goes wrong" story that every movie, every show, and every conversation about AI is still referencing.

This edition includes the original 1818 text (considered Shelley's preferred version) and an introduction connecting the novel's themes to the AI ethics conversations happening right now.