I wrote this little story as an homage to Mary Shelley. As I noted in my post of Nov 1, this year marks the 200th anniversary of science fiction, a genre that she kicked off in spectacular style when Frankenstein<\/i> was published anonymously in London in 1818.<\/p>\n
In a spirit of fun, I tried to work lots of SciFi subgenres into the story, while employing a vaguely gothic style reminiscent of Shelley’s masterpiece, or Polidori’s The Vampyre<\/i>, or pretty much anything by Poe.<\/p>\n
I managed to cram quite a few science fiction themes into one little story. There are elements in there of time travel, telepathy and mind melds, alien visitors, robots, alternate realities and several others besides.<\/p>\n
In keeping with my long-running White Mirror<\/i> theme, I even threw in a happy ending. In these dark times we need as many happy endings as we can get.<\/p>\n
For those of you who celebrate it, Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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