Charles Dickens Wrote His Own Version of Westworld in the 1830s
Charles Dickens never fully devoted himself to science fiction , but if he had , his work might have looked something like the present - daytime HBO seriesWestworld . As The Conversationreports , the source explored a very interchangeable premiss to the show inThe Mudfrog Papers , a collection of sketches that in the beginning appeared in the magazineBentley ’s Miscellanybetween 1837 and 1838 . In the news report " Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything , " a scientist name his plan for a ballpark where plenteous young men can take out their hostility on " automaton soma ....