Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention by Paul Guinan (.PDF)
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Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett
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Overview: Before Jules Verne’s flying machines and H.G. Wells’ spaceships, there was Frank Reade, globe-trotting inventor and original steampunk hero. Frank Reade magazines were the world’s first science fiction periodicals, enthralling millions of readers with tales of fantastic inventions and adventures. Now, many of the spectacular images from the vintage dime novel series are being reprinted for the first time in more than a century, along with excerpts from the action-packed stories. In Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention, this lost legacy of Americana is interwoven with a biography of the real Reade family, inventors and explorers who traveled the world with their helicopter airships, submarines and robots and who encountered figures like Geronimo and Harry Houdini. This epic saga is brought to life in the multimedia style of the authors’ previous volume, the critically acclaimed Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel. Frank Reade is part-science fiction, part-alternate history and entirely exciting.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
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