Fun Fact #294 The Mother of Sci-Fi

 Fun Fact # 294

The Mother of Sci-FI

In the year without a summer (1816), Mary Godwin, Precy Shelly, and others traveled the Alps to spend the summer with the famous poet Lord Byron who lived secluded on Lake Geneva. The rain kept them trapped indoors, so to pass the time they told ghost stories. Then Mary had the idea to take the old folktales about Revants (Reanimated corpses), and mix them with modern science to create the first Science fiction story: Frankenstein.

Simultaneously, she took the genre of horror from just folk tales and myth and turned it into a book establishing horror as its own genre entirely, and helping to inspire later works of the era like Dracula, The Wolf Man, and First Men in The Moon. 

As for her personal life, the summer would find Mary and Perecy grow in their love and marry. This is how the world was introduced to the Mother of Science Fiction: Mary Shelly.

Mary Shelly as Pictured by: Encyclopedia Britannica