@stevesebban Frankenstein is not a "rewrite" of the Golem of Prague, and saying so erases both Mary Shelley's contribution and the distinctive Jewishness of the golem story. The golem was built not by scientifically-explained means but by a Rabb Loew's religious/ritual power to protect the Jewish community from pogrom, putting it in the long tradition of myth and religious fable. Frankenstein's eponymous protagonist on the other hand is a scientist, and explicitly disavows mystical methods like alchemy before applying his study of chemistry and other scientific fields to the creation of the Creature. It is this aspect that makes the work science fiction, not the creation of an artificial being. The two stories have very little in common other than an artificial animated construct that goes out of control--different materials, different methods, plots, motivations, endings, etc. @NickEast@macmanx@sciencefiction@writers@writingcommunity@writing