mary shelley

I know the SF Author Brian Aldiss does. I wonder if Shelley read Voltaire's SF story Micromegas?

Ok , just got round to reading this ; tbh it was only because I'm studying it in my English Lit class. The story to me seems highly contrived , and unintentionally hilarious. The fact that the Creature self-educates from a collection of books having learned to speak by watching a family for...

Mary Shelley was married to the great romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was herself a part of the romantic "club" together with her husband and also the famous poet Lord Byron. It was in this group that the idea for Frankenstein was conceived. They all agreed that they should try to write...