P&P Meets Frankenstein

[ubiquirk]

The P&P Zombies thing has hit.  I haven't read it yet, but I did read a crossover between Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein.  Since a couple of people asked me about it, I thought I'd put it out there for everyone.

It's John Kessel's Nebula-winning "Pride and Prometheus."  It's set after both main texts and is told from Mary's POV.  [And if you

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[beer_good_foamy]

Thanks for the tip, Frankenstein is one of my favourite novels so I'm going to have to read that one. (I loved Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, btw; make sure you read it.)

[ubiquirk]

Hope you like it.

[dickgloucester]

Thanks for the headsup. Don't have time to read it now, but I've copied to my computer for later. *hugs*

[ubiquirk]

I hope you like it. He nails the P&P narrative voice.

[dickgloucester]

You think so? It's a while since I read any Austen (though not eons) and I found the style to be rather wooden pastiche until the story got past scene-setting.

To be honest, while I enjoyed it enough to read all of it, my two main impressions were:
1. This is fanfic! Yay! (With a side-note of: yeurch - crossovers.) Perhaps I should be writing fanfic for stuff that's well out of copyright...
2. If this is what reputable magazines are publishing then there is hope for us all.

It's not that it was bad - it wasn't - but it was, as I say, a bit wooden, with some things that were intrusively clumsy (such as a couple of examples of period scene-setting which did no more than say: Look at me - I've done research!!!!), and it just didn't convince me sufficiently to make me go wow.

Perhaps I'm being overly harsh. I don't know. I am, sometimes. But I know plenty of fanfic writers who can do better. Not claiming to be one of them - I'm in a 'writing crap' phase at the moment, which is a touch disheartening.

[ubiquirk]

Well, I read it over a month ago, but a lot of things written to sound like that time sound wooden to me, so saying it matched the voice can equal wooden. (laughs) I like Austen, but regency is so not my thing.

As I said up top, I don't think it's as good as some of Kessel's other work, which has been modern in voice and more science fictional in topic. His 'Invaders' for example is excellent.

This year's Nebulas do give hope. Did you read all the contenders yet that were up for free? Have you spotted the stinker? [It actually won its category!!!]

[laiksmarei]

I so want to read this book if only for the novelty and badnwagonishness of it, lol. I tried to pick it up at my local Barnes & Noble, but they aren't carrying it for some reason.

[ubiquirk]

I haven't looked for the book yet.