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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. The first novel starts w

There was good cause for these exclamations upon the part of the Yankee and Irishman, as they stood on the margin of Wolf Ravine, and gazed off over the prairie

On the great plains of the old American west, enormous steam-powered robots march across the countryside. Their mission: to defend the populace against invading

One of the earliest examples of steampunk literature and American science-fiction novels, this 1868 tale recounts the adventures of a teenage inventor who const