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Science Fiction

nuxvomica

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4. Not just a "seminal classic of gothic horror"

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Sun Oct 3, 2021, 08:58 AM

Oct 2021

Arguably the first important work of science fiction, essentially creating the genre. Written at the juncture of The Enlightenment, when faith was being nudged out by science as the guiding ethos, and the Industrial Revolution, when humans began wielding the terrifying new powers of machines, Frankenstein epitomized the central question of science fiction: What is the role of humans in a universe without gods? Shelley asked the question this way: Are we now the gods?

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