Messenger Tokens deliver NFT books upon publication.Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818) tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Some have argued for regarding this book as the first true science-fiction story, a story in which the central character makes a deliberate decision and turns to modern experiments in the laboratory to achieve fantastic results.Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist of Gothic science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18, 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.