Ron is the maker of said sexbots (and probably the avatar of Byron) and Polidori is Polly D, an ambitious writer for Vanity Fair with some questionable journalistic practices. (Ry's deadname is Mary-creative, no?) Their Claire is also named Claire (you get the point), but she's now an Evangelical Christian slowly coming around to the idea that building AIs and sexbots isn't somehow playing God. Stein's occasional muse is Ry Shelley, a transgender transhumanist who also serves as the voice of reason.
"Jack" Good, the British mathematician who worked with Alan Turing at Bletchley Park. In Winterson's world, the spirit of reanimation Shelley infused into her novel after losing a child gets reimagined in the person of Victor Stein (creative, no?), a 21st-century TED talker on the subject of artificial intelligence who is obsessed with re-creating the brain of I.
(If that Shelley story sounds familiar, it might be because it was the topic of a recent Manual Cinema production.) It straddles both worlds, and a few in between, and in so doing illustrates how human ideas of existence, identity, and emotional intelligence have changed radically-and not at all. Written as a fictionalized twist on Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein, her latest novel time-jumps from the early 1800s-when Shelley was writing her book on a trip with her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, as well as the poet Lord Byron, physician John William Polidori, and Mary's stepsister, Claire-to a near-future where artificial intelligence and sexbots threaten to make Frankenstein's vision of invented life almost real. Urn:oclc:857081035 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120108205250 Scanner is Winterson's temporal fluidity more evident than in Frankissstein. OL1918834W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.00 Pages 202 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0394280148 Urn:lcp:writtenonbody000wint:epub:bda1a363-2b9a-4de3-b036-5bafa5d80dd4 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier writtenonbody000wint Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3hx2cv1k Isbn 9780679420071Ġ67942007X Lccn 92054475 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1745148M Openlibrary_edition Urn:lcp:writtenonbody000wint:lcpdf:a7df3a2b-afdb-423e-bcbc-5340bcbcbea2 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:03:33 Boxid IA152801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st American ed.
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