Laurie Sheck

• Jul-2009
• / General Fiction
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What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein's monster but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother's grave, and he came to her unbidden? What if their secret bond left her forever changed, obsessed with the strange being...

• Dec-2016
• / Literary
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Following on the heels of her exciting and widely acclaimed A Monster's Notes , and with Sheck's characteristic brilliance of language, Island of the Mad follows the solitary, hunchbacked Ambrose A., as he sets out on a mysterious journey to Venic...

• Sep-2017
• / Literary
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Following on the heels of her exciting and widely acclaimed A Monster's Notes, and with Sheck's characteristic brilliance of language, Island of the Mad follows the solitary, hunchbacked Ambrose A., as he sets out on a mysterious journey to Venice in...

• Jun-2025
• / General Fiction
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Cyborg Fever addresses timely questions about AI, technology, and their role in shaping relationships. In Cyborg Fever, acclaimed writer Laurie Sheck brings us a probing and lyrical philosophical fiction in the spirit of Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, a...