Compassion in the Code: Of Monsters and Mainframes Review

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If you fed Frankenstein, Star Trek, and a queer philosophy zine into a blender and hit “purée,” you might get something close to Of Monsters and Mainframes. This isn’t your typical hard sci-fi AI; Demeter is neurotic, dramatic, and deeply lonely. You get the sense that even the coldest code can evolve into compassion, if you give it time. In a cultural landscape that still often treats queerness as subtext or accessory, Of Monsters and Mainframes is loud, proud, and unapologetically weird. Of Monsters and Mainframes was published on 3rd June 2025 by Bindary Books.