BBC Radio 4 - Seriously… - Seriously… - 10 Women Who Changed Sci-Fi
10 Women Who Changed Sci-Fi
As the Radio 4 documentary Herland examines how science fiction tackles ideas of gender in future worlds, we present a selection of great female authors who have radically altered the genre…
Mary Shelley
Credited with founding science fiction as a field, Shelley’s key contribution to the genre was Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. She completed the novel in 1817, when she was still a teenager, after she and her lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, were challenged to produce a ghost story by their friend Lord Byron. The book’s terrifying insight - that we could make life and intelligence – continues to be one of science fiction’s enduring themes
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