... and her views on human nature in general. The majority of the critics have made it clear that they believe that the experiments and works of previous scientists, alchemists, and contemporary authors also had an influence on both the novel and the author. In Earl Wasserman's work, "Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: A Critical Reading," written in 1965, Wasserman writes, "During the summer in which ... . Shelley is less concerned with the hardware of science than with its implications. Tropp relates that "like most of science fiction, her novel is a projection into the immediate future of cont...

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