num_pages: 176
description: Before Jules Vernes flying machines and H. G. Wellss spaceships there was Frank Reade globe-trotting inventor and original steampunk hero. Frank Reade magazines were the worlds 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 familyinventors and explorers who traveled the world with their helicopter airships submarines and robots and who encountered figures like Geronimo and Houdini. This epic saga is brought to life in the multimedia style of the authors previous volume the critically acclaimed Boilerplate: Historys Mechanical Marvel. Frank Reade is partscience fiction partalternate history and entirely exciting!Praise for Frank Reade: A retrofuturist visual feast. Wall Street JournalA stunning multimedia confection of the highest order that creates a detailed and delightful world. Publishers WeeklyThe books allure owes everything to its deadpan prose and hundreds of perfectly faked photos and graphics that replicate mass-media and commercial ephemera of the Victorian erathe result of immersive research. TheAtlantic.com Portland-based Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett are a husband-and-wife team of multimedia artists who have produced a variety of work. . . . Their new book Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention is their best work yet. io9.com
language: English
title: Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention
publisher: Harry N. Abrams