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Chicano Frankenstein cover

This isn’t a Dr. Faustus-Frankenstein crossover, but that’s a good thing

Chicano Frankenstein by Olivas, Daniel A

August 20, 2025 by vega-table Leave a Comment

Bingo Row 4 – Green I’ve been meaning to read Chicano Frankenstein by Daniel A Olivas for one reason. The title is Chicano Frankenstein, which I find intriguing. It’s a modern retelling of Frankenstein, making it a post modern Prometheus. (I made myself laugh). But really it doesn’t have many parallels with the inspiration because the protagonists are nice and reasonable. In a world where corpses are reanimated for labor or something, some reanimated man just lives his life as politics and human rights issues […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Olivas, Daniel A

vega-table's CBR17 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Olivas, Daniel A ·
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