Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Gothic science fiction of a scientist's obsessive creation of a living human from corpses

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Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley is widely regarded as the mother of science fiction, having written Frankenstein at the age of eighteen. Her novel explored themes of creation, responsibility, and the dangers of unchecked scientific ambition. She also wrote the post-apocalyptic novel The Last Man.

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