Steam Man of the Prairies
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Steam Man of the Prairies
By (Author) Edward Ellis
Dover Publications Inc.
Dover Publications Inc.
26th August 2016
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
813.4
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 141mm, Height 217mm, Spine 5mm
148g
Description
One of the earliest examples of steampunk literature, this 1868 tale was also among the first American science-fiction novels and the very first literary instance of a mechanical man. Extremely popular and much imitated in its day, the story concerns a teenage inventor who constructs an automaton to help him explore the American prairie.
Author Bio
Edward S. Ellis (1840-1916) produced hundreds of books and articles, both under his own name and under more than a dozen pen names. Best known for his Deerfoot novels of the Old West, Ellis also wrote works of biography and history.
