by Maledicta | Sep 9, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities
(Actually, you probably shouldn’t try this at home.) Last week I posted an article about Frankenstein’s monster and the concept of creating sentient synthetic life. Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel may have been a game-changer for the horror genre, but the idea of...
by Maledicta | Sep 1, 2018 | Halloween 365
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the titular character develops the means to instill the spark of life into an artificial being. While the 1818 novel certainly broke new literary ground, the notion of synthetic life hails back to the earliest stirrings of...
