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Season 2 Episode 1: How Mary Shelley Turned Science Into Frankenstein

David Preston

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There's a lot of weird going around. As Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." That's what Mary Shelley did in 1816, the Year Without A Summer. Check out how a volcano, a frog, and a poet inspired an 18-year-old dreamer to create the first science fiction.