Frankenstein in popular culture his abilities are similar and he is referred to as God's Monster after using the nail of Helena. Frankenstein's Monster appears as the Berserker class Servant of the Black Faction in the "Fate/stay night" spin-off "Fate/Apocrypha". This depiction of the monster is a young female homunculus in a wedding gown. The 2015 film "Ex Machina" is a film noir retelling of the Frankenstein story with a 21st Century femme fatale android. Frankenstein in popular culture Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", and the famous character of Frankenstein's monster, have influenced popular culture for at least a century.
The Dig (novel) (pp34–36) is possibly transposed from other phases of the excavation not described. The second mound explored in 1938 (known as Mound 2), which contained a disturbed burial which had included a ship, is not described but is 'merged' with the famous ship-mound ('Mound 1') excavated in 1939. Hence the real excavation of Mound 2 is suppressed, and the preparations for the real 1939 excavation is omitted. Some glassware found in the former is, in the novel, transposed to the latter (e.g. p 61). Hence the novel cannot portray what was learnt by the experience and findings of the 1938 dig,