Mary Shelley created something new. She is credited with writing the first science fiction/horror novel in the form of Frankenstein when she was just 18. Science fiction is a genre that explores the impact of real or imagined science on a society, environment, and characters within a story. Shelley might never have guessed we’d be discussing her novel 200 years later as a relevant and astonishing work of fiction.

What do you think drives humans to create? Is there a creation (an invention, etc.) that you cannot live without?

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