ACT English Practice 5

One of the most famous novels of all time, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, marked¹ not only the high point of a young woman’s literary career.

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One of the most famous novels of all time, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, marked not only the high point of a young woman’s literary career. But² also the beginning of a brand-new genre of literature being science fiction.

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One of the most famous novels of all time, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, marked not only the high point of a young woman’s literary career. But also the eginning of a brand-new genre of literature being science fiction.³

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In her remarkable tale, Shelley explores what might happen if a scientific possibility—the ability to restore life to the dead—were to become a reality. Science fiction explores how what might be would affect our world if it really was.⁴

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What Shelley began, H.G. Wells perfected in dozens of science fiction works including his most famous works:⁵ The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds.

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While Shelley’s Franken-stein created a living creature from the body parts of the dead, Wells’s characters traveled through time; created half-animal, half-human creatures; made themselves invisible; and having been attacked by Martians.⁶

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In all of his novels, Wells; like Shelley,⁷ used scientific possibilities to analyze and often criticize his own society. The War of the Worlds, for example, is a thinly disguised attack on the British colonialism of his time.

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Science fiction flourished in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s with pulp magazines that for the masses churned out science fiction stories.⁸ Meanwhile, in Europe, science fiction writers were using science fiction to help bring about political change.

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Today, science fiction writers around the world continue to explore possibilities—possibilities that are fast becoming realities. Much of what science fiction writers only dreamed of a century ago, such as cloning and space travel, have⁹ already come to pass

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What lies ahead? How will we handle these and other upcoming advances? Let us hope that science fiction writers are wrong, for all too often, characters in science fiction stories, like they’re¹⁰ forefather Victor Frankenstein, are unable to handle the responsibility of having so much power over nature.

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