175 years ago today, Mary Shelley, an English novelist, died. She wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

crimeschneck∈🇩🇪⊂🇪🇺@sopuli.xyz · 15 days ago

175 years ago today, Mary Shelley, an English novelist, died. She wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 15 days ago

As if happens the new movie is on Netflix.

I think it does address the modern interpretation of her work with a far more sympsthetic monster pretty well but there’s some significant deviation from the novel.

175 years ago today, Mary Shelley, an English novelist, died. She wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

175 years ago today, Mary Shelley, an English novelist, died. She wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley