Frankenstein

Extract: Shortly after beginning my personal challenge to read all the Best Novel Hugo winners, I read a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov on SF. In many of the essays, he referred to "Frankenstein" as the first SF novel. So when I began the Women of Genre Fiction 2013 Challenge, I saw it as a wonderful excuse to read "Frankenstein." Initially, I was nervous. In my youth, I never enjoyed reading classic literature. I usually found I couldn't stay focused on lengthy, rambling, descriptive prose. And besides, who talks like that? So I avoided classic lit for many, many years. To my surprise, "Frankenstein" completely changed my mind.