Frank and Stein: A Modern Prometheus
A Modern RetellingBy Professor Plumenthal
Length39m
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.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Frank and Stein: A Modern Prometheus
3Chapter 1: The Grindset
4Chapter 2: The Probationary Period
5Chapter 3: The Cancellation of William
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6Chapter 4: The Civic and The Exile
7Chapter 5: The E-Girl Ultimatum
8Chapter 6: The Catastrophe
9Chapter 7: The Final Log-off
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