âItâs anecdotal, but I regularly see Frankensteinâs monster described as a warning against scientific hubris, an alarm about Tampering With Things That Should Be Left Aloneâą. This I think is quite wrong: I think it is a story about what happens when one fails the (still at the time of writing) radical enlightenment by failing to take social responsibility for oneâs actions and interventions. If itâs a warning, itâs a warning about turning oneâs back, out of cowardice, on what one creates, not about creating it in the first place.â
â China Mieville, interview with the Weird Fiction Review (via brotticelli)
















