According to Anthony Burgess, Brian Aldis (b. 1925) is so celebrated and titled as a science fiction writer that you can't help but forget what a wonderful writer he is. Indeed, the winner of various awards, Aldis went down in history as the founder of the “new wave” in SF - a movement designed to instill the latest achievements of intellectual literature in the unassuming wild masslit. Among his best novels is Frankenstein Unchained, a tribute to Mary Shelley's masterpiece, organically combining the external signs of science fiction and stylization for the era of romanticism, deep philosophical subtext and surreal imagery.