Journey's through the Golden Age of Sci Fi led me back chronologically to its Victorian precursors. Just finished HG Welles' The Island of Doctor Moreau. And I

Journey's through the Golden Age of Sci Fi led me back chronologically to its Victorian precursors. Just finished HG Welles' The Island of Doctor Moreau. And I have to say, it's like an ur-Text for all Sci Fi has to say about nature, reason and fate. There's a documentary about the 1996 adaptation of the novel. The story was an obsession of British filmmaker Richard Stanley's. And the circumstances that followed are like something right out of its pages.