Release Message:  Time is starting to break up, when Joseph Bodenland, a citizen of the year 2020, gets thrown back through time and space to Lake Geneva around the time when Mary Shelly was writing the original Frankenstein story. Written by Brian Aldiss.

Description:  Time is starting to break up, when Joseph Bodenland, a citizen of the year 2020, gets thrown back through time and space to Lake Geneva around the time when Mary Shelly was writing the original Frankenstein story. To his big surprise there's an actual Victor Frankenstein living there, and yes, his younger brother has just been brutally murdered and the nanny is charged with the murder. Fiction and reality getting mixed-up or what? Bodenland searches out Shelly to find out. He not only finds Mary Shelly but also Percy Bysshe Shelly, Lord Byron and Dr. Polidori. As to how it goes with Frankenstein and his creationƒ well, that would be telling wouldn't it? Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction may as easily have congress as Bodenland himself manages to make love to Mary Shelley. This title was made into a film, starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric and Michael Hutchence.