Playing God
From a lab in Ingolstadt to CRISPR and AI — the same question, growing more literal every century: what do we owe the things we create?
- 1 StoryBites Edition Frankenstein Mary Shelley The original: a man creates life and flees the room the moment it opens its eyes. Read →
- 2 StoryBites analysis The Birthmark Nathaniel Hawthorne Creation as perfectionism — a scientist who would rather kill his wife than accept a single flaw. Read →
- 3 StoryBites analysis Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne A father who makes his daughter beautiful, poisonous, and utterly alone. Read →
- 4 StoryBites Edition The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Creating a monster out of yourself — and losing the power to change back. Read →
- ✦ Beyond the shelf · Myth & drama Faust The bargain beneath them all: knowledge and power now, the soul later.
- ✦ Beyond the shelf · History & film Oppenheimer ‘Now I am become Death’ — a creation that can never be un-created.
- ✦ Beyond the shelf · Science CRISPR & AI alignment Exactly the question Mary Shelley asked, now literal: responsibility for what we bring into being.