Frankenstein and Jurassic Park and robots, oh my! Professor Todd Avery joined Radio Boston to talk about what we can learn from famous sci-fi monsters.
British actor Boris Karloff is seen in his trademark role as the monster of Frankenstein in this 1947 photograph.
One of the most popular classes at UMass Lowell is all about monsters and what the creepy-crawlies of science fiction tell us about our fears around technology, science and the future. Professor Todd Avery joins us to talk about what we can learn from famous sci-fi monsters.Orson Welles broadcasts his radio show of H.G. Wells' science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds" in a New York studio at 8 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 30, 1938.
"Originally this course was called"Frankenstein's Monsters," and that evolved over time. But it began with a focus on Frankenstein, which is a novel that I actually wrote my undergraduate English thesis on. And then I went to graduate school fully intending to study Mary Shelley more ... and somehow I ended up getting sucked into a 19th century vortex and spit out on the other end. And so I really specialized in late 19th century and early 20th century literature.
"For a long time, the fathers of science fiction were often referred to from the late 19th century, included H.G. Wells — in the slightly earlier Jules Verne, the French writer — but Mary Shelley was really the mother of science fiction. And she gave us a fundamental modern myth in the story of the mad scientist who wants to play God using modern science and technology, but fails to imagine the potential negative consequences of his art.
"And he's working right in that Frankenstein line. Which, you know, you go back to Frankenstein, and we're talking about a scientist who harnesses the latest in electrical and other scientific, chemical, mathematical, physical developments of that time. Galvanic batteries, for instance, were kind of all the rage during the time when Mary Shelley was writing her story. And so electricity was always a key component of it. But Mary Shelley created this story about.
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