The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward Sylvester Ellis

"The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies" by Edward Sylvester Ellis is a dime novel published in 1868. This groundbreaking work stands as the first U.S. science fiction dime novel and an early example of the "Edisonade" genre. When a Yankee and an Irishman encounter a colossal steam-powered mechanical man on the American prairies, they discover it was built by a teenage inventor who uses it to pull his carriage through frontier adventures. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
Title The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steam_Man_of_the_Prairies
Credits Produced by Blackmask Online. HTML version by Al Haines.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 76.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Robots -- Fiction
Subject Dime novels
Category Text
eBook-No. 7506
Release Date
Last Update Dec 30, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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