Dean Koontz's "Frankenstein" Trilogy

[KING]

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a trilogy of novels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mystery or thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Three volumes so far have been or are about to be published: Prodigal Son, co-written with Kevin J. Anderson, was published in 2004; City of Night, co-written with Ed Gorman, was published in 2005; and Dead and Alive, written without a co-writer, scheduled to be released in 2009 according to Koontz.

Synopsis: The series is a supposedly a modern updating of the mythology of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, although the similarities are mainly superficial. Set in present day New Orleans, the series follows the activities of Victor Frankenstein, now known as Helios, as he continues to create new life forms for his own purposes. Opposed to his activities are a pair of homicide detectives and Frankenstein's original monster, now known as Deucalion.

While the original Monster was made with parts from dead humans, Victor Frankenstein is now using modern technology to create more creatures, particularly synthetic biology. The new race he is making is constructed and designed from the bottom-up, and can be seen as bio androids, artificial humans made of flesh. Their knowledge and behavior is even based on programs downloaded directly into their brain, which appears to be an advanced wetware computer.

Source: Wikipedia


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I've read the first book "Prodical Son" and was glued to the book for days, started reading "City of Night" a while ago, but with school and whatnot I had no time, now i'm on holiday i've started reading it again and am half way through and it's just as awesome as the first. Can't wait for the third.

Anyone here read or interested in starting it?

[WarBeast]

Koontz seems to have a problem with finishing up his series... his Night series, Frankenstein, etc... I dug the hell out of the first two books in the Frankenstein series, but it's been years and still no finale... pisses me off.

[Wrathborne]

Isn't Koonz just biting of Stephen King in a lot of ways?

[Doc Awesome]

Sounds really good might have to check it out just hope it's not too good and have to keep waiting for the last book to come out.

[KING]

Koontz seems to have a problem with finishing up his series... his Night series, Frankenstein, etc... I dug the hell out of the first two books in the Frankenstein series, but it's been years and still no finale... pisses me off.

2009 apparently, here's to hoping.

[Doc Awesome]

That's good news more gladly to check it out now

*Checks ebay and amazon*

[WarBeast]

Just as an update... I saw at the bookstore last night, that Part 3 of the Frankenstein trilogy is fuckin finally out... anyone checked it out yet?

[WarBeast]

Just picked dis mofo up tonight...

[KING]

It's about fucking time. Should be picking it up by tomorrow if it is in stock yet.

Let us know how you like it Warbeast.

[BigFatOgre]

Isn't Koonz just biting of Stephen King in a lot of ways?

WTF!!! NO!!!
Koontz is his own writer with his own trappings and style. He's an easier read and his characters are mcuh more filled out than kings as he has a tendency to focus on his main characters and their psychological makeup.
I like King, but I'll take Koontz over him anytime.

As for Frank series - Loved the first 2 books and now i'm gonna have to hunt down the 3rd. I've been looking for a good book to read lately.

[BooBerry]

Sorry guys haha. If I would have noticed this threat before I would have said the 3rd book has been out for a couple months already. :leave:

[KING]

Way to drop the ball.

[WarBeast]

WTF!!! NO!!!
Koontz is his own writer with his own trappings and style. He's an easier read and his characters are mcuh more filled out than kings as he has a tendency to focus on his main characters and their psychological makeup.
I like King, but I'll take Koontz over him anytime.

As for Frank series - Loved the first 2 books and now i'm gonna have to hunt down the 3rd. I've been looking for a good book to read lately.

Umm... have you read a lot of Koontz? Seriously, if you have, then you must not be very observant. I like Koontz's work well enough and I've read a lot of his stuff over the years. In doing so, I've come to observe he writes to a formula, much much more so than King ever does. What your mistaking for well-fleshed characters are simply the same characters used in different ways. Koontz's novels generally consist of a strong, spunky female lead, a troubled male lead that has lost his faith in the world, a couple of supporting characters that all come together to face whatever "evil" is in play... and there's usually a dog involved.

The smart spunky female usually helps the troubled male to regain his faith in the world and they usually end up falling in love, whilst they come together with the other characters to confront said evil critter/organization/force/person/etc... quite often with the help of a dog...

On rare occasions the roles are reversed and it is the smart spunky male that helps the troubled female come to terms with whatever is haunting her and they in turn fall in love and yadda yadda yadda help of a dog yadda yadda yadda...

Again, I enjoy Koontz and have read more of his books than I can count, but I'd never go so far as to say his writing is anywhere near King's level... As I've said in another post, I consider Koontz as some light reading that I use to cleanse my mental pallette between reading books that are a bit more of a cerebral type... basically Koontz is just good fun stuff to read while I'm taking a shit.

[WarBeast]

Finished the book... was a little let-down... I guess I was expecting a bit more of an epic climax to a book that took so long to be completed... as it was, it was typical Koontz, but the end was just kinda meh...