Charles Liu
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was an author, a poet, actually.
Poet, that's what it is.
Yes.
Okay.
But Mary Shelley was actually, perhaps in sort of retrospect, the more talented of the two.
And Mary Shelley, aside from writing Frankenstein, also wrote an apocalyptic novel about a pandemic.
that actually killed everybody except a few people.
I think it was called The Last Man.
I have to check that.
I'm sorry, I don't remember exactly.
At that point, she was speculating about science fiction, about how people could travel from London to Cambridge in a matter of days by balloons that had wings attached to them that were flapping like birds.
You know, really neat ideas.
It does.
In-
maybe it was to Glasgow.
It was, you know, like somewhere far away.
I was just thinking that's about 60 miles.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, so it was airships, you know, the idea of airships.
I didn't know that all these other strings to her bow.