![]() Beadle's American Novel No. 45, August 1868, featuring "The Steam Man of the Prairies" | |
Author | Edward S. Ellis |
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Working title | The Huge Hunter |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Published | 1868 |
Publication place | United States |
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Text | The Steam Man of the Prairies at Wikisource |
The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S. science fiction dime novel[1] and archetype of the Frank Reade series. It is one of the earliest examples of the so-called "Edisonade" genre.[2] 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. This novel may be inspired by the steam powered invention of Zadoc Dederick.[3] The original novel was reissued six times from 1868 to 1904.[4] A copy of the first 1868 printing with its cover intact is owned by the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia.[5]
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