Our second episode stays in the world of silent films, but it crosses the line between science fiction and horror as Alan and Paul discuss an early adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, produced in 1910 by the Edison studios.

Frankenstein is often cited as the first science fiction novel, though, as author D.N. Schmidt notes,

Asking about the first science fiction novel is a little like asking, “When was the automobile invented?” What do you consider an “automobile”? Does it have to run on gasoline? What about oil? Does it need an internal combustion engine or do steam-powered vehicles count? Depending on how you answer these questions, the date of the invention of the automobile can change by as much as 110 years!¹

1. Was Frankenstein The First Science Fiction Novel? ↩︎