In the summer of 1816, Lord Byron invited the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his young wife, Mary, to his home in Switzerland. The days were rainy, and the host suggested that each of them write a ghost story. This led to the creation of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, published in 1818 and considered the first novel of the science fiction genre. Trapped in the Arctic ice, Victor Frankenstein is rescued by Captain Walton. He spends his final days recounting the tragic story of his experiments in his quest to bring inanimate matter to life, and how the being he created would rebel against him.
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