FRANKENSTEIN (abridged) by Mary Shelley read by James Mason:Caedmon LP

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You are buying an LP produced by Caedmon Records called FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley and read by James Mason.   
Description: Jacket: In VF condition:  Still in original shrink wrap. Very Clean and unmarked.
Description: Vinyl LP: In VF condition: Assumed because it is still in original shrink wrap
Record number: TC 1541                                  Date: early 1977                            Produced : Caedmon Records                               Product: Spoken word

                                                                                             THE FIRST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
          "The day came, once, when the first science fiction novel was written and published. To be sure, stories had been written, centuries before, that, in hindsight, SEEMED to be real science fiction. We might even suggest that Homer's tales of one-eyed giants, and of witches, to have been science fiction of a sort. Those early tales, however, had nothing to do with societies changed by technological advance, and it is that which is the hallmark of true science fiction.              Even stories about flights to the Moon, some of which were written eighteen centuries ago, made no use of scientific advance. People reached the Moon by means of waterspouts, or spirits, or birds, all of which were established parts of the world that writers knew. In 1657, CYRANO DE BERGERAC had suggested rockets as a way for reaching the Moon, but his hero didn't use them.              Right into the beginning of the 19th century, no one thought of scientific advance as the basic ingredient in a story. ...But then came those applications of science and technology that led to the Industrial Revolution, and people began to sit up and take notice.              In 1771, an Italian anatomist, Luigi Galvani, noticed that the muscles of dissected frog's legs twitched wildly when a spark from a static electric machine happened to strike them, or when a metal scalpel them while such a machine was in operation, even if the sparks made no direct contact....              What it all came to was that electricity, the study of which had entered high gear in only the previous half-century, had mysterious  but apparently intimate connection with life. People began to speculate on the possibility of the scientific creation of life." Thus, the seeds of the tale of FRANKENSTEIN were sown.

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