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- <font size=6>Frankenstein</font></font>
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- <font size=5>T</font>he earliest days on paper are harder to
- pin down, partly because the term "science fiction" was
- coined
- long after the first books were written.
- <font size=5>T</font>he clearest early example is Mary
- Shelley's Frankenstein .
- <font size=5>M</font>ore correctly Mary Godwin's, as the
- 19-year-old author was not yet married to Shelley, the
- original
- Frankenstein is pure science fiction, despite the horror
- movie antics that have followed. <font size=5>L</font>ike
- most
- writing of its time (1816 to be precise), Frankenstein is heavy going today. Even so, the combination
- of the then very new possibilities of electricity,
- the macabre biology of the recreated man, and the
- creation's philosophical musings (the original
- creature was anything but a grunting monster) are worth
- battling with.
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