Sublime

apocryphal.

In writing Frankenstein, Mary produced both in the creature and in its creator tropes that continue to resonate deeply with contemporary audiences. Moreover, these tropes and the imaginations they engender actually influence the way we confront emerging science and technology, conceptualize the process of scientific research, imagine the

Ernest Hemingway said the book was “something over 60% shit.”

The discovery of the chrono-synclastic infundibula said to mankind in effect: “What makes you think you’re going anywhere?”

During a friendly chat at the convention, van Vogt warned PKD that the great days of the science fiction magazine were effectively over and the market for short stories was drying up. He urged PKD to become a novelist, especially as there was much more money to be made than from short stories – even when published in magazines as well regarded as

Jason said, “‘Television is a medium because it’s neither rare nor well-done.’ Isn’t that how that saying goes?”

From the modern submarine to the laser gun, and from mobile phones to CRISPR, scientists will readily admit they got direct inspirations from fiction. Imagination indeed shapes the world.

So, intrigued by the notion, I wrote a story about a robot who wanted to be a man and who worked at it for two hundred years before being accepted as one. It intrigued me to the point where I made it twice as long as I had planned to make it. Again, I was writing over my head. As it happened, the anthology never came to pass. The young woman who