Is Frankenstein science fiction?
Yes and no. the whole idea of artificial life, here created or more accurately re-animated from dead bodies- belongs to science fiction as well as the Horror or Monster Genre. popularily it is horror, technically it is science-fiction. of some intererest Mary Shelley did not write any other science-fiction romances or novels, just Frankenstein, so the monster work, indeed. a more science-fictional development of related ideas will be found in Donovan”s Brain and on a sexier node- The Head. There is some evidence the latter work was inspired in part by the Francoise Dorleac tragedy of l967. Plan a head!
