Dean Koontz - Frankenstein 2010 - Lost Souls.nfo
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Title: Frankenstein Bk4
Author: Dean Koontz
Read By: ChristopherLane
Copyright: 2010
Audiobook Copyright: 2010
Genre: Horror
Series Name: F
Position in Series: 04
Abridged: No
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Book Description
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The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different.
Victor
populate
he will
With a
powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and
a secret
that
this time, nothing and no one can stop him.
It is up to five people to prove him wrong. In their hands rests nothing
less
than the survival of humanity itself.
They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous,
to
the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the
man they
Maddison;
original
a small
forces from
within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any
they have
yet encountered. Yet in the midst of their peril, love will blossom,
and joy,
and they will discover sources of strength and perseverance they could
not have
imagined.
They will need all these resources, and more. For a monumental battle
is about
to commence that will require all their ingenuity and courage, as it
defines
what we are to be . . . and if we are to be at all.
Dean Koontz on Frankenstein: Lost Souls
When it comes to predicting the future, I am Nostradamus's idiot great
nephew.
In the 1980s, I believed that by 2010, we would all be traveling regularly
to
no-sales-tax shopping malls on the moon and zipping over to Mars for
a
Frappuccino. I thought we would be enjoying genetically engineered house
pets
like cadogs (half cat, half dog, all affection), miniature eaglebbits
(flying
rabbits), dry chihuahuas (little dogs that never need to pee), crocodobers
(highly effective home guard dogs), and spongerbils (sponge gerbils
that not
only can be cuddled but will mop your floors and wring one another out
in a
bucket of water).
I also predicted that by now we would be flying everywhere with personal
jet
packs, and carrying clever autofloss machines to strip the bugs out
of our teeth
in thirty seconds flat after landing. Back in 1980, I predicted that
by now John
Belushi would be president, but I don't count this one a complete miss,
because
Al Franken is a United States Senator, which I admit surprises me considering
that Mr. Franken isn't nearly funny enough to hold high office.
When I finished the third Frankenstein novel, Dead and Alive, I foresaw
that it
was the end of the series. As it turns out, I was as right about this
as I was
about my prediction that the annual Academy Awards TV special would
be hosted
five years running by Muammar Gaddafi.
My original trilogy brought to an end a story cycle, but the themes
of Shelley's
novel are more timely by the month. I realized that I could do much
more with
the concept than I had done thus far. Furthermore, an entirely new kind
of
technology of creature-creation occurred to me, and it was a lot more
terrifying
than the messy-gooey, strictly biological New Race that Victor developed
in the
first trilogy. By moving the setting from New Orleans to Rainbow Falls,
Montana,
I was able, as well, to change the atmosphere and to have fun with Armageddon
occurring in snow-and-cowboy country.
As always, if readers hadn't been so enthusiastic about these books,
I wouldn't
have been able to proceed with the series. I appreciate your support
more than I
can say. I've received a lot of mail from readers who said they didn't
read
these novels for the longest time because the whole Frankenstein thing
turned
them off, but when they finally tried them, they discovered these weren't
at all
like what they expected, and they loved them. I always try not to give
you the
same old same old. Lost Souls has the flavor of my first three Frankenstein
titles, but otherwise it does not clump over familiar territory. This
time,
Victor is much scarier and smarter than his predecessor, and his war
against
humanity is a blitzkrieg that comes on like a storm.
Lost Souls, like the books after it, is self-contained even though it
is a part
of a larger narrative. You can plunge into it and, if you like it, then
go back
to Prodigal Son, City of Night, and Dead and Alive if you wish. I am
currently
working on The Dead Town, recounting the next phase of the war against
humanity,
and I suppose it might sound a little strange to say I'm having a good
time
chronicling our doom.
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--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Set in Rainbow Falls, Mont., Koontz's goofy, grisly fourth riff on the
Frankenstein theme (after Dead and Alive) finds Victor--previously presumed
dead
but apparently as easily resurrected as cinematic incarnations of his
monster--
perfecting his "New Race" of humanoid replicants. As affectless pod-person
lookalikes gradually replace the town's citizens, the task of saving
humanity
from Victor and his megalomaniacal plans to "destroy the soul of the
world" fall
once again to husband-and-wife detectives Michael and Carson Maddison;
Victor's
soulsearching original monster, Deucalion; and a host of local yokels
who
provide both sympathy and comic relief. That the "good guys" are instantly
recognizable by their abundant compassion, generosity, and sense of
humor and
the "bad guys" by their fussbudget fastidiousness and dedication to
efficient
extermination of inferior humans helps lay the foundation for the humanitarian
homilies that punctuate the narrative.
All
rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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