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FF7MXH SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1939. /nBasil Rathbone as Dr. Frankenstein, Boris Karloff as the Monster, and Bela Lugosi assisting.

The gruesome science behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

27 October 2021

Sharon Ruston's new book, The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein, explains how Mary Shelley drew on science as much as imagination to create her masterpiece
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Kim Stanley Robinson on how to have a good Anthropocene

27 October 2021

In his latest novel The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson imagines what a future based on climate action might look like. He shares his take on the world with Adam Vaughan

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