Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention

Before Jules Verne’s flying machines, and H. G. Wells’s spaceship, there was Frank Reade, globe-trotting inventor. 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. This lost legacy of American is interwoven with a biography of the “real” Reade family – inventors and explorers who traveled the world with their helicopter airships, submarines, and robots. This epic saga is brought to life in the multimedia style of the authors’ previous volume, the critically acclaimed Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel. Timeline. Illus., color / b&w. 176p.