Name: フランケンシュタイン：現代のプロメテウス - エキストラSF - #1 (Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus - Extra Sci Fi - #1)
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Science fiction
begins with Frankenstein.

程度の副詞

even the philosophy behind
science fiction come

So let us start where we
must, and talk Frankenstein.

"The event on which
this fiction is founded,

"has been supposed, by
Dr. Darwin, and some of

"I shall not be supposed as
according the remotest degree

"of serious faith to such an imagination,

"yet, in assuming it as the
basis of a work of fancy,

"I have not considered
myself as merely weaving

Shelley is saying that
the events in this book

but they could exist in
the universe we know.

but it's this idea, the
idea that our sci-fi

within the bounds of what
science tells us is possible,

that makes science fiction
different fundamentally different

This is what separates it
out as its own distinct

literary branch and
allows it to have rules

and conventions unlike those
already existing genres

of the fantastic, of
horror or folklore or myth.

It's also initially part
of what gets us to buy in.

Science fiction uses the
possible as a lens for our world.

but what better way to
look at human nature than

to set it against the
extreme cases of what

it might someday encounter
and see what rolls out.

This is so important to Shelley that it's

the very first thing that's
presented to the reader.

Without this idea of
the fantastic possible,

But that is far from the
only standard Frankenstein

the other ways that
Frankenstein established tropes,

styles, and techniques that we almost take

Now, before I tread any
further, I should say one thing,

if you only know this
story from the movies,

you don't actually know this story at all.

The films have little to do with the book,

and while it is actually a
really worthwhile exercise

to think about why this
story has been interpreted

and reimagined the way it has
throughout the 20th century.

So let's start at the
beginning, with a young man,

obsessed by alchemy and yet fascinated by

A young man determined
to overcome death for

Victor is the blueprint for
the frustrated scientist trope.

All of those other scientists
you read about in comics,

see in movies, or find
in the pages of later

science fiction, those who
would have been so great

for the world if the world
had only acknowledged

and so ingrained into
pop culture that a lot

of these characters pop
up without their authors

of Victor Frankenstein
that they come from.

Victor is also our model
of scientific hubris.

He believes that he can best
death itself by creating

and thinking his own
intellect to be so superior,

he doesn't even once
consider the ramifications

He is the model for all of
those characters punished

for the scientist so obsessed
with pursuing their ideas

that they don't even
consider what those ideas

he flees because it's physically deformed,

An innocent, filled
with gentle kindness and

a love for the world, who
is rejected at every turn

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