ABSTRACT
In Dean Koontz’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the evil, psychopathic scientist Victor Frankenstein has, by occasionally renewing his body, managed to survive until today. And, not very surprisingly, he is up to no good. Biotechnology, in which he excels, gives him the opportunity eventually to fulfil his old dream of engineering a New Race of obedient supermen and women which he can use as tools that will help him conquer the world.1 Unfortunately – for Frankenstein, that is – things do not work out as he planned. The members of the New Race develop serious defects, and violated nature strikes back at him.
