The Big Idea: K. Ancrum

One of the eternal question in speculative fiction is: Is this fantasy? Or is this science fiction? And does the answer matter? For Adam, Mine, author K. Ancrum takes a stab at this question, using one of the most durable tales in literature as inspiration. K. ANCRUM: The moment of conception in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is so deeply imbedded in our cultural consciousness, through adaption and visual representation, that you’d be hard pressed to find someone over standard drinking age who cannot place the 1931 film shriek “It’s alive!” even if they’ve never seen it, or read the book at all. It’s an instant of science horror that birthed a thousand sub genres, but there is so little discussion about it in particular. No, no, not the philosophical nature of birth, or the allegorical structure regarding God and Man, or the Lit-Crit monologue on the nature of the act of creation. I am not talking about that. I am talking about the spark itself! The scientific labor that preceded the…