That's a perspective on Mary Shelley that I hadn't considered. But she was reasonably well-adjusted and popular. And yes I do consider Frankenstein to be the first English science fiction.
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But she was reasonably well-adjusted
Bruh...
She kept her dead husbands heart and would carry it around with her
That’s not neurodivergent that’s just goth bro.
Victorian goth no less.
Reasonably well-adjusted not perfectly well-adjusted.
Weird but also romantic. At least it was her deceased husband's heart, and not her living husband's?
She would have had to be Frankenstein if she somehow had her living husband's heart. Taking out the heart does tend to have the property of leading to death
If keeping body parts is a sign of neurodivergence then lots of religious people are neurodivergent. Having body parts (finger, bones, organs) from holy people or saints as relics is extremely common.
Reasonable
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I don't understand. Which authors are you referring to that created the genre and are neurodivergant?
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i dunno, ok, but that's like saying the theory of relativity, or the mona lisa, was created by a neurodivergent and co-opted by normies. some of us are artists, and some of us work the fields. without either we all starve.
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Modern sci-fi was created by an extremely depressed widow that only thought about the social and scientific repercussions of bringing her husband back from the dead and put it in the form of literature. And appreciation for Sci Fi has been around for a very long time. Nosferatur, The Haunting, House on Haunted Hill, The Blob, The Day The Earth Stood Still, War Of The World's, etc...
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It is funny. There are so many things in modern day that would be a dream come true to young me but it all goes dystopia and all the fantasy and scifi is one of those things. I thought I would love so much but so much is not done well. I sorta feel for gay people because being into scifi was a subculture but it going mainstream has greatly diminished the subculture as it sorta becomes unnecessary but I miss that small group feeling.
That's not entirely true. There's still good sci-fi being made. Look at the expanse, dark, altered carbon.
I dont know much about newer books, but I m sure there's good scifi writers out there still. What comes to mind is ready player one, red rising, pines, although these are all 10 years old by now. It illustrates that it's not just the era of Heinlein and Asimov that counts.
Yeah its not so much good sci-fi is not being made as there is such innundation that its more of a diamond in the rough kind of thing and Im talking more media than literature.
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Sometimes an asshole is just an asshole.
I don't really think so, unless you have a very broad definition of neurodivergence. In which case, yeah sure most all art is made by people who are not balanced happy individuals, now too. If you don't have that black hole of need inside you, you don't need to fill it.
HG Wells
Jules Verne
Mary Shelley
L Frank Baum
Heinlein
They seem like regular minded people just brilliant. I don't think of anyone as a "normie" though, my definition of normal is either it has to be broad enough to encompass a majority of the population, or it's meaningless because nobody is identical to anyone else, all broken in our own way and strong in our own way.
Sure, "neurovanilla" people
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Much like all other creative endeavors
being so acoustic about languages you make a book that is a global hit
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