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... How far do you think Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' can be regarded as a work of science fiction? Science Fiction is defined as a 'genre of fiction set in some imaginary time or place.' In a 1960 survey of the field, New Maps of Hell, British novelist Kingsley Amis wrote that 'science fiction deals with events that could not happen in the world we know but are presented on the basis of some innovation in science or technology'. The Romantic period in which 'Frankenstein' was composed was a time of tremendous paradigm shifts in science. What used to be referred to as 'natural science' became 'biology'. 'Natural science' was the order in which plants and animals were classified in what was known as the 'Linnaean' system according to genus and species. On the other hand, biology is the bios- study of life, and attempts to discover the logos-idea of life. The fundamental
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