Artificial Beings: Frankenstein

In the summer of 1816 at Villa Diodati took place an encounter that marked an inflection point in fantasy and science fiction literature, because in one of the night meetings of these days the literary work Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus, written by Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851) was born. In this new post I'm devoting to the artificial beings in literature and roleplaying games I will tlk about the mosnter and its creator and will see some examples of how it has influenced the fiction of the following years.

Artificial Beings: Golems

Golem by Philippe Semeria (CC BY 3.0)

In this (certainly overdue) second installment of the series devoted to artificial beings appearing in folklore and fantasy and science fiction narrative, as well as roleplaying games, today I will talk about the golem.

To read the first installment of the series, devoted to homunculi, you may follow this link.

Artificial Beings: Homunculus

19th century engraving of an homunculus
of Goethe's Faust,
second part
(Public domain)

With today's post I begin a series devoted to artificial beings populating several areas of culture, folklore, science, fantasy and science fiction which ended up appearing in many fictional works including, of course, roleplaying games.

In this first chapter I will talk about the homunculi.