Biology is science. Medical science is science. The lack of robots and computers does not disqualify it as sci-fi.
It’s a piece of speculative fiction asking “what if these medical advances (plus a few new fictional breakthroughs by a genius) led to the creation of a new life?” That’s science fiction.
I’m not sure I’d count Frankenstein, tbh. I think it’s more horror than sci-fi.
The addition of electricity is the only reason anyone calls it scifi
Biology is science. Medical science is science. The lack of robots and computers does not disqualify it as sci-fi.
It’s a piece of speculative fiction asking “what if these medical advances (plus a few new fictional breakthroughs by a genius) led to the creation of a new life?” That’s science fiction.
I doubt it, but ok