The narrative follows two parallel timelines. In 1816, Mary Shelley conceives her story of a manufactured creature at Lake Geneva while surrounded by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. In the present day, Ry Shelley, a trans doctor, navigates the ethics of artificial intelligence and life extension. Ry enters a relationship with Victor Stein, a scientist leading a secretive project to upload human consciousness into non-biological forms. The story connects nineteenth-century Romanticism with twenty-first-century transhumanism, examining the physical reality of the body versus the digital permanence of the mind. Key subjects include cryogenics, the development of sex bots, and the definition of humanity in a post-organic era.
This book serves readers interested in the intersection of philosophy and speculative fiction. It appeals to those studying gender identity or the history of medical advancement. Readers gain a perspective on how the human desire to overcome death links Mary Shelley’s Gothic fiction to modern Silicon Valley ambitions. The text provides a framework for understanding how technology redefines autonomy and where biological limits end. A reader concludes the book with a clearer view of the historical continuity through which humans attempt to engineer their own evolution.
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
