“Eden 2.1” by Steve Bancroft Will Be Displayed at the 2024 L.A. Times Festival of Books

The self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet will exhibit “Eden 2.1” by Steve Bancroft at the 2024 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The literary festival will occur on April 20-21, 2024, at the University of Southern California Campus in Los Angeles, USA.

“Eden 2.1” is a contemporary tale inspired by Mary Shelley’s well-known novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. The book puts forward some important questions about human beings’ desire to comprehend the origin of life.

In 1818, Mary Wollencraftstone, soon to become the wife of the famous poet Percy Shelley, on a challenge by Shelley’s friend Lord Byron, wrote the first gothic horror story in literature. The inspiration for her book was an experience of attending a new, famous parlor trick in which the presenter applied electricity from a battery to a dead frog. To the delight, fascination, and, for Mary, horror of the assembled guests, the frog jumped and squirmed as if animated by the application of the newly discovered electricity. Mary’s work, titled “Frankenstein or the New Prometheus,” became an immediate literary hit. The moral tale of the dangerous and unintended consequences of delving into forbidden experiments is also regarded as the first work of science fiction.

Two hundred years after Mary penned her classic work, the issues surrounding her tale of warning are as compelling and valid as when first imagined by her inventive mind. Indeed, those issues contain even more immediacy, as the possibilities of creating human life by nontraditional technological means are fast approaching scientific nonfiction.

Steve Bancroft, with a background in moral theology, in the writing of “Eden 2.1,” has brought Mary Shelley’s questioning into a 21st-century science-fiction book with numerous twists to Shelley’s literary approach. Bancroft suspects that he is not alone in questioning the potential dangers of using technological means to accomplish ends that have yet to be vetted for unintended consequences and moral and ethical issues. He has chosen to return to Shelley’s literary genre to attract interest in those issues, as history is filled with story-telling to raise intellectual conflict and awareness of critical social problems.

Get a copy of “Eden 2.1” by Steve Bancroft on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and ReadersMagnet Bookstore. Visit ReadersMagnet’s exhibit at booth #225 at the L.A. Times Festival of Books 2024 to check out the book’s display.

Author
Steve Bancroft is the retired Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Paul, Detroit, the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. He and his wife Margaret live in the Village of Franklin, a nearby suburb of Detroit.

“Eden 2.1”
Author: Steve Bancroft
Genre: Sci-Fiction
Publisher: ReadersMagnet LLC
Published date: November 20, 2023

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