Frankenstein

Through Biopunk

The ur-text of the wet lab: a young scientist assembles life from dead tissue and abandons what he made. Biopunk's founding question, who is responsible for a made creature, starts here.

Through Frostpunk

Conceived during the volcanic Year Without a Summer and framed by a ship trapped in Arctic ice. The creature's last flight across the floes makes the frozen north the place where ambition goes to die.

Through Pyropunk

The subtitle says it all: science as a new theft of fire. Adjacent rather than core, but it handed the Prometheus myth to the modern laboratory.