In 1816, Mary Shelley created a monster on the shores of Lake Geneva. Two hundred years later and a mile and a half away on the other side of that same lake, a team of neuroscientists at Project Cerebrum create a perfect electronic replica of the human brain. This juxtaposition of two realities sets in motion a switchback ride between fiction and fact as the past intersects with the present. After the original Cerebrum director dies in a skiing accident, neurobiologist Hana Robinson receives a surprise invitation from the director's successor to collaborate with him on a top-secret project to heal brain-damaged U.S. war veterans. Hana soon begins to suspect that their work is a cover for something more sinister. With the aid of her former lover, a journalist in Washington D.C., and the grieving widow of the deceased director, she eventually stumbles on a connection between what is going on at Cerebrum and what was really going on in Shelley's masterpiece when she learns of the astounding secret the author had divulged on her deathbed. As Hana and her companions delve deeper into these two intertwined worlds and more people associated with Cerebrum die by apparent accident, their own lives are put in jeopardy when they finally discover what the person who is actually pulling the strings at Cerebrum has been planning all along.
About the Author: David Stansfield has spent most of his career as a television writer-producer in Canada and the United States. He has British, Canadian and U.S. citizenship. With his wife, Denise Boiteau, David has written and produced some 400 television scripts (documentary, drama, comedy, animation) for TVOntario in Canada (both in English and French), the Public Broadcasting Service in the U.S., the Discovery Channel, NHK, Encyclopedia Britannica and Time-Life. He has also written half-a-dozen feature film screenplays, both originals and re-writes of other people's scripts. All of his TV scripts were produced and broadcast in Canada, the United States as well as in many other parts of the world. His TV productions have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have won over fifty international film and television awards, including the selection of "The Middle East" series in the 1987 Academy Awards Best Educational Documentary category. Again, with Denise Boiteau - David launched a French-as-a-Second Language TV network. He has also served as Media Delegate to the Gulf States in the Middle East for the Ontario Government. He speaks French, German and Arabic and has a First Class Honors B.A. in Modern Arabic Studies from Durham University and an M.A. in North African Literature (Arabic and French) from Cambridge University, including post-graduate study at the Sorbonne. He also completed a number of years of post-graduate work towards a Ph.D. in Media Studies with the late Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto, as well as at UCLA, comparing the effects of Roman, Arabic and Chinese script. A Season of Monsters is his ninth book.