On Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
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The Last Man Is the First Work of Science Fiction
People call this the first work of science fiction. How did it establish some of the conventions that we might still recognize today? Science fiction is often fiction about the future. And Shelley's third novel, which is called The Last Man, and which is about a plague that is coming,. It's set centuries beyond its date of writing better in some ways than Frankenstein does.
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