About this audiobook

It’s alive... and it’s quiet quitting. Mary Shelley’s classic gets a brutal, laugh-out-loud update for the late-stage capitalism era in Frank and Stein: A Modern Prometheus. Dr. Victor Stein, a stressed bio-architect at a sinister tech conglomerate, uses CRISPR and AI to engineer the ultimate American worker drone—a relentless sigma male designed to grind 100-hour weeks. Instead, he creates Mr. Frank. Corrupted by training data full of Reddit threads and sports radio, Frank is an eight-foot-tall, chronically depressed slacker. Biologically incapable of finishing a Jira ticket, he spends his days trapping coworkers in existential conversations and obsessing over his negative aura. When HR puts Frank on a PIP and fires him, Stein assumes his failed experiment will just assimilate into the gig economy. He’s dead wrong. A very short, razor-sharp satire of Silicon Valley hustle culture, corporate burnout, and Gen Z brainrot.

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Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction

Length39 mins

Narrated bySelect Your Own

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMar 13, 2026

LanguageEnglish

About the author

Professor Plumenthal

I help authors find their best markets and increase their income. Writing is an art, but publishing is a business. You have to do the hard work at the desk, but you also need a strategy to sell your words. Through AuthorBiz, I help writers navigate the complex mechanics of genre trends, reader expectations, and successful marketing frameworks. I take the guesswork out of the publishing process so you can focus on writing your next great book while maximizing the reach and revenue of your current one.View all by Professor Plumenthal