The Mummy! Egypt; the 1821 public unwrappings of Egyptian mummies in a theatre near Piccadilly, which she may have attended as a girl; and, very likely, the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus." As Shelley had written of Frankenstein's creation, "A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch," which may have triggered young Miss Webb's later concept. In any case, at many points she deals in greater clarity with elements from the earlier book: the loathing for the much-desired object, the immediate arrest for crime and attempt to lie one's way out
The Modern World (novel) The Modern World (novel) The Modern World is a fantasy/science fiction novel (2007) by Steph Swainston and is the sequel to "The Year of Our War" (2004) and "No Present Like Time" (2005). "The Modern World" is published as Dangerous Offspring in the USA. The first chapter of "The Modern World" is available on Steph Swainston's website The novel is set in the Fourlands, a country in danger of being overrun by large hostile Insects, and follows the exploits of Jant, also called "the Messenger" or "Comet". As a half-breed of two humanoid species Jant is the only person who