Mary Shelley
1797 – 1851 · United Kingdom · Literature
Frankenstein invented science fiction and the ethics-of-creation debate.
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- Margaret Atwood
1939 · Literature
Frankenstein founds the speculative moral fiction Atwood calls the same tradition.
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