Storyspace reader windows6/22/2023 In the original the female monster is destroyed by her creator in a fit of despair before she can be given life. Patchwork Girl or, A Modern Monster riffed on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus, remixing text from the original and other sources alongside a new story about the female counterpart made by Dr. ![]() The writer was there to reflect on a work that in the short time since its release had become one of the most celebrated examples of a new kind of literature: the hypertext novel. No, I am the monster herself, and it is Shelley Jackson who is imaginary. I expect there are some of you who still think I am Shelley Jackson, author of a hypertext about an imaginary monster, the patchwork girl Mary Shelley made after her first-born ran amok. May I say that I find this an extraordinary impertinence, and that if she would like to come forward, we shall soon see who is the author of whom. It seems you have even invited her to speak tonight, under the misapprehension that she exists, that she is something besides a parasite. It has come to my attention that a young woman claiming to be the author of my being has been making appearances under the name of Shelley Jackson. Her speaker bio noted that “she specializes in lies and digressions.” The talk was entitled “ Stitch Bitch ,” and began like this: In her author photo she wore a sleeveless vest, a dense cluster of ear piercings, and an ampersand, tattooed on her upper arm. The talks had begun just after lunch, and now it was coming up on nine o’clock as the final speaker took the stage: a woman in her mid-twenties. On the MIT campus in October 1997, an interdisciplinary symposium called “Transformations of the Book” was taking place, bringing together “classicists, Shakespearean scholars, technological wizards and lovers of all media” to explore how printed books were being challenged and changed by the digital age. If you want to see the whole, you will have to sew me together yourself. You can resurrect me, but only piecemeal. ![]() Released: October 1995 (Eastgate Systems) By Shelley Jackson (as MARY/SHELLEY, & HERSELF)
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