About the book
Victor Frankenstein, a young Swiss scientist, is at the center of Mary Shelley's Gothic novel. After leaving home for the University of Ingolstadt, he discovers a way to give life to a creature built from human body parts. When it wakes, Victor is repelled and abandons it, and the creature flees into the world on its own. Shelley started the story at 18, after Lord Byron proposed that he and his companions each try writing a ghost story. The first edition appeared without her name, and a later revised edition under her name added a new preface on how the tale was conceived. The novel went on to shape a whole genre of horror stories, films and plays.
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington noted that Shelley wrote it as a teenager and that it is often called the first science fiction novel, and said he takes from it the creativity solitude can bring and how a new technology may be misread, perhaps even by the person who made it.
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Michael Arrington (Founder/TechCrunch)
Shelley wrote this book as a teenager, and most of us read it in high school. Often credited as the first science fiction novel. You can read just about any political viewpoint you want into the book, and there are strong undertones that technology isn’t all good. But what I get out of it is the creativeness that can come with solitude, and how new technology can be misunderstood, even perhaps by the creator (see Twitter). Key thing to remember: Frankenstein is the name of the scientist/creator, not the Monster. Everybody forgets that.
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