Frankenstein Day, or National Frankenstein Day, is an annual holiday on August 30th to celebrate the birthday of Mary Shelley (born in 1797) and her iconic novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The day is a tribute to Shelley’s literary genius, her groundbreaking work of science fiction, and the novel’s enduring themes of ambition, creation, and responsibility.
FreedomFiction.com coincidentally published a Science Fiction today—titled “Off We Go” and prophetically it is also from an author named “Mary”. Based out of Germany, she seems to have a bizarre unwitting / unwilling tryst with Frankenstein through our fiction publication.
Off We Go by Mary Jo Rabe
now at
https://www.freedomfiction.com/2025/08/off-we-go-by-mary-jo-rabe/
In 2001 A Space Odyssey, the man feared the Artificial Intelligence taking over the operations of the spaceship, and maybe metaphorically our near future, where AI guides our decisions and soon enough decides things for us, without giving us the option or choice to have freewill, freedom and ability to do anything.
In Mary Jo’s fiction– things are not as simple as one may read. Here, we are willingly handing over the reins to our life and future to Artificial Intelligence–and unfortunately, you and I do this willingly right now in year 2025 onwards. Accessibility and ease of use of and even dependency on AI have now become that common.
No wonder, this otherwise intriguing Adventure in Space, is thus exceptional in thought and concept–making itself well-qualified to be listed in Editor’s Choice Section of FreedomFiction.com .
This is in a way–a “Return to Frankenstein” with the motives being to allow Artificial Intelligence to do whatever we could not. Human endeavor or excellence then, is no longer considered essential to be originating from a human, but acceptable if achieved by a bot created by humans.
—Dey
