"Dream that my little baby came to life again; that it had only been cold, and that we rubbed it before the fire, and it lives."

Mary Shelley, who wrote the above in a diary entry in 1815, may not be the first person you think of when you start reading Julian Gough's new novel Connect. You might instead think of Philip K Dick and his protagonists; writers and characters that more specifically explore the advances of future tech and their implications. But to my mind, it's Mary Shelley that forms ...