Frank Reade’s father has topped himself this time: double the steam horses for double the adventure! With his most audacious invention yet, young Frank Reade Senior accompanies an unstoppable avenger sworn to bring deadly retribution to the outlaws that destroyed his family and his life. The scientific scourge of bandits everywhere is coming!

Frank Reade, Jr By Luis Senarens and "Noname"Frank Reade, Jr. was a fictional teen-age, steampunk, inventor-hero of the late 19th century. He starred in at least 179 action dime novels. His father was featured in only four novels, and relied on steam power. Frank Jr. turned to electricity and invented about every kind of land, see and air vehicle you can imagine, including electric robots. In one story, he even ventured accidentally into space. Frank's mother, Mary, is introduced in one of his stories. His wife, Emilie, son Frank III, and daughter Kate show up from time to time, as well. No matter the title, you can depend upon Frank and his sidekicks to provide fast-paced tales of adventure on, over and under land and sea. Frank Reade, Jr By Luis Senarens and "Noname"

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Western stagecoach lines are profitable but supremely dangerous business, what between the inhospitable terrain, thieving outlaws, not to mention the cost of keeping relay stations and teams of horses every fifteen miles. But just imagine if someone invented mechanical horses that did not tire and a bulletproof stagecoach impervious to all bandits. The man capable of such genius would become a millionaire in no time flat! Can steam virtuoso Frank Reade be that man?

"Frank Reade and His Steam Horse" by Luis Senarens is a thrilling science fiction adventure set in the Victorian era, showcasing the pioneering spirit of inventor Frank Reade and his remarkable mechanical marvel, the Steam Horse. Senarens' narrative bursts with innovation as Reade explores uncharted territories and pushes the boundaries of technology with his steam-powered inventions. As an inventor ahead of his time, Reade embodies the spirit of exploration and ingenuity, using his mechanical prowess to navigate daring adventures and embark on groundbreaking journeys. Through Senarens' vivid storytelling, readers are transported to a world where invention and exploration go hand in hand, where steam-powered contraptions propel characters to new heights of discovery. Amidst the excitement of adventure, Senarens also delves into the moral implications of Reade's innovations, raising questions about the responsibilities that come with technological advancement. Through the lens of his fictional character, Senarens offers readers a captivating exploration of the intersection between invention, exploration, and ethics in a rapidly changing world. "Frank Reade and His Steam Horse" is a captivating blend of adventure, science fiction, and innovation, showcasing the limitless possibilities of human ingenuity and the thrill of exploration in an era defined by technological advancement.

A fictional biography of the inventing and exploring Reade family, who travel the world and seek adventure with their helicopter airships, submarines, and robots.

In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.

A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America, Nathaniel Williams analyzes the genre of technology-themed exploration novels—dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles. This genre proliferated during the same cultural moment when evolutionary science was dismantling Americans’ prevailing, biblically based understanding of human history. While their heyday occurred in the late 1800s, technocratic adventure novels like Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court inspired later fiction about science and technology. Similar to the science fiction plotlines of writers like Jules Verne and H. Rider Haggard, and anticipating the adventures of Tom Swift some decades later, these novels feature Americans using technology to visit and seize control of remote locales, a trait that has led many scholars to view them primarily as protoimperialist narratives. Their legacy, however, is more complicated. As they grew in popularity, such works became as concerned with the preservation of a fraught Anglo-Protestant American identity as they were with spreading that identity across the globe. Many of these novels frequently assert the Bible’s authority as a historical source. Collectively, such stories popularized the notion that technology and travel might essentially “prove” the Bible’s veracity—a message that continues to be deployed in contemporary debates over intelligent design, the teaching of evolution in public schools, and in reality TV shows that seek historical evidence for biblical events. Williams argues that these fictions performed significant cultural work, and he consolidates evidence from the novels themselves, as well as news articles, sermons, and other sources of the era, outlining and mapping the development of technocratic fiction.

Frank Reade Senior returns, traveling the West in search of adventure with his astonishing new invention: the Steam Horse. As he battles outlaws in the prairies, he meets a new ally, a veteran Buffalo Soldier named Pomp. But will this be enough to counter the biggest band of cutthroats and brigands Frank has ever met?