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The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- leejoramo 11y agoThis article provides a great context for why Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is typically sighted as the first Science Fiction novel. There are other SF-style stories that can be cited prior to Frankenstein, but I am not sure any of them truly qualify has Hard Science Fiction. (While I do love Hard SF, I don't hold it above other forms of the genre. I do think that Hard SF is the easiest to define and to separate from other forms of story telling.)
- Retric 11y agoInteresting, I always thought of Frankenstein as very soft Sci-Fi, but at the time it probably seemed far more reasonable. As you can get dead flesh to twitch with electric currents.