If you aren’t already a Dean Koontz fan, I apologize for what all you have missed. If you are and you haven’t already began this series, get in gear and go to Barnes and Noble right now.
I am first and foremost a technologist. This makes me more apt to side with science in debates like Stem Cell Research and Cloning.
If you really want to get into this series of books, stop reading now, I will put the spoiler section in block quotes so you can easily avoid it.
The setting is current day New Orleans, Louisiana. The characters are a couple cops, a spattering of extras and Victor Frankenstein and his monster. What’s that you say? Yes, Victor is still alive and so is his monster. Of course his methods are refined, but he is up to the same old stuff.
The key here to the debate is that since these creatures he is making now are from a genetic genesis, they are with a few unique characteristics. They know they will live thousands of years, they know they can’t die, they know they can’t murder their maker and they know they do not have free will. They have no hope.
That’s all you get for now. If you are not already interested, go find another site about Pokemon or Beanie Babies. This is some fantastic fiction.
I have finished the second book, now I am waiting for the 3rd which is ironically delayed because of hurricane Katrina. Dean Koontz felt like he couldn’t terrorize the city anymore so he is working on a way to gracefully write the storm into the book.
I highly recommend these two books and most likely the third as well.
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