Charles Liu

There's no way he can break out of those, right?

And then he breaks out of them because humans underestimated the power of nature in our hubris.

I've seen chrome.

Before my day.

I don't know about your day.

But yes.

Yes, considered by many to be the first true science fiction novel in the European tradition.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's wife, Mary Shelley, wrote this book, Frankenstein.

It went through several editions in the early 1800s.

But the monster was the creation of Dr. Frankenstein, who was trying to- Frankenstein.

Frankenstein.

That's the Gene Wilder version, which I liked very much as well.

Yes.

And Igor instead of Igor.

But it was an allegory about what happens when you try to violate nature, because he was a man trying to reproduce, trying to create life.

Trying to be God.

That's right.

Trying to be a woman.

trying to give birth to life.

And so the combination of just defying nature and defying God caused Mr. Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein, to lose control of the monster, and the monster winds up becoming this bad thing.