Tag: Frankenstein
No. 9: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and Who’s The Real Monster?
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, while on holiday, visited Lord Byron’s Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in 1816. Percy Shelley, her lover and future husband,...
Cloud Atlas Shrugged – or let the Skyfall
On Monday Skyfall was released on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK. Tomorrow Cloud Atlas will open in UK cinemas. Two films, poles apart....
In the Beginning…
Memorable first lines can not only make-or-break a story, these quick literary introductions can become just as iconic as the entire body of work.
No. 4 – H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, War of...
I suspect what most people remember most about H. G. Wells gets confused with Orson Welles, the actor. You know, that infamous radio announcement?...
Amelia by Frank Lucatuorto
We love mad scientists. We always have. It's arguable that the Dark Ages tradition of the Evil Wizard is the earliest form of the...
Who Cares About the Science in Science Fiction?
I do!
Let me introduce myself. I'm an astronomer, a professor at the University of Wyoming, and a science fiction writer. I've been blogging for...