Author: Clarke
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Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus（Chapter 1-5）
Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus（Letter 1-4）
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Mêng / Youthful Folly
above KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN below K'AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER
Chun / Difficulty at the Beginning
above K'AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER below CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER
K'un / The Receptive
The first hexagram is made up of six unbroken lines. These unbroken lines stand for the primal power, which is light-giving, active, strong, and of the spirit.
Ch'ien / The Creative
above CH'IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN below CH'IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus（Chapter 6-12）
Frankenstein is one of the best-known works of English literature. Infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, it has had a considerable influence on literature and on popular culture, spawning a complete genre of horror stories, films, and plays.
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus（Chapter 13-18）
The novel was first published anonymously in 1818, and in 1831, a revised edition was published under Mary Shelley's name. This version included significant stylistic revisions, a new preface describing the story's conception, and a more explicitly moral tone.
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus（Chapter 19-24）
In the summer of 1816, Mary, Percy, and Claire took a trip to visit Claire's lover, Lord Byron, in Geneva. Poor weather conditions, more akin to winter, forced Byron and the visitors to stay indoors. Byron suggested that he, Mary, Percy, and Byron's physician, John Polidori, each try writing a ghost story.Mary was 20 years old when her novel Frankenstein was published.
The Pacifist
From Fantastic Universe, vol. 8, no. 3 (October 1956).Mr. Clarke returns to these pages with one of his inimitable "White Hart" stories, the truth about what happened when computer Karl von Clausewitz ran into the General who'd led a much too sheltered existence.
Fans of the novel *The Songs of Distant Earth*
Fans of Clarke's classic novel, The Songs of Distant Earth, gather here.
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The Nine Billion Names of God
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.
Three Laws of Robotics
The Three Laws of Robotics are a set of rules devised by science fiction author Isaac Asimov, which were to be followed by robots in several of his stories. The rules were introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround" (included in the 1950 collection I, Robot), although similar restrictions had been implied in earlier stories.
On the Translation of Chinese Web Novels Abroad
The readers multiply in silence and in great numbers. Official reports speak of two hundred million active overseas souls drawn into this web, with some figures climbing toward three hundred and fifty million or more across two hundred countries.
