Frankenstein
The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
4/5
Penguin Classics 273 pages January 1, 1818
Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young scientist, creates a sentient creature from reanimated dead tissue — then abandons it in horror. The creature, intelligent and tormented, seeks revenge on its creator. Often called the first science fiction novel, it probes the ethics of creation, responsibility, and what it means to be human.
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Jim's Review
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Mary Shelley was eighteen when she wrote this. EIGHTEEN. Jim was still figuring out which end of a book to start from at that age. Forget everything the movies told you — the real monster here is Victor Frankenstein and his catastrophic parenting skills. The creature is eloquent, tragic, and deeply sympathetic. This worm considers it the greatest sci-fi origin story ever told, and it was written over 200 years ago. Unreal.
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