[Gutenberg 7506] • The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies

[Gutenberg 7506] • The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies
Authors
Ellis, Edward Sylvester
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Tags
adventure , robots -- fiction , dime novels , science fiction , classics
ISBN
9781539304562
Date
1868-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.10 MB
Lang
en
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The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S. science fiction dime novel and archetype of the Frank Reade series. It is one of the earliest examples of the so-called "Edisonade" genre. Ellis was a prolific 19th century author best known as a historian and biographer and a source of early heroic frontier tales in the style of James Fenimore Cooper