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Luis Senarens

Lifespan
1863 – 1939
Nationality
American
Active
1892 – 1903
Works held
17

Luis Senarens (1863–1939), a Cuban-American Brooklyn writer, began as a teenager churning out ‘Frank Reade, Jr.’ dime novels, invention-adventure stories full of airships, electric marvels and robots that earned him the nickname ‘the American Jules Verne’. Under ‘Noname’ and other pen names he wrote more than 300 dime novels, a vast and now largely forgotten stratum of early American science fiction.

The works

  1. 1903
    Cover of Frank Reade Jr. and His Engine of the Clouds Frank Reade Jr. and His Engine of the Clouds Cover of Frank Reade, Jr.'s Search for the Silver Whale Frank Reade, Jr.'s Search for the Silver Whale Cover of Frank Reade, Jr., Fighting the Terror of the Coast Frank Reade, Jr., Fighting the Terror of the Coast Cover of Frank Reade, Jr., and His Electric Ice Ship; or, Driven Adrift in the Frozen Sky. Frank Reade, Jr., and His Electric Ice Ship; or, Driven Adrift in the Frozen Sky. Cover of From Zone to Zone From Zone to Zone
  2. 1902
    Cover of Frank Reade Jr.'s Air Wonder, The "Kite"; Or, A Six Weeks' Flight Over the Andes Frank Reade Jr.'s Air Wonder, The "Kite"; Or, A Six Weeks' Flight Over the Andes Cover of Frank Reade Jr.'s Submarine Boat; or, to the North Pole Under the Ice. Frank Reade Jr.'s Submarine Boat; or, to the North Pole Under the Ice. Cover of Frank Reade, Jr., With His New Steam Man in Central America Frank Reade, Jr., With His New Steam Man in Central America
  3. 1896
    Cover of The Sunken Isthmus; or, Frank Reade, Jr., in the Yucatan Channel. The Sunken Isthmus; or, Frank Reade, Jr., in the Yucatan Channel. Cover of The Transient Lake; or, Frank Reade, Jr.'s Adventures in a Mysterious Country The Transient Lake; or, Frank Reade, Jr.'s Adventures in a Mysterious Country
  4. 1895
    Cover of The Galleon's Gold; or, Frank Reade, Jr.'s Deep Sea Search. The Galleon's Gold; or, Frank Reade, Jr.'s Deep Sea Search.
  5. 1894
    Cover of Lost in the Atlantic Valley; Or, Frank Reade, Jr., and His Wonder, the "Dart" Lost in the Atlantic Valley; Or, Frank Reade, Jr., and His Wonder, the "Dart"
  6. 1893
    Cover of The Abandoned Country; or, Frank Reade, Jr., Exploring a New Continent. The Abandoned Country; or, Frank Reade, Jr., Exploring a New Continent.
  7. 1892
    Cover of Frank Reade and His Steam Horse Frank Reade and His Steam Horse Cover of Frank Reade, Jr., and his new steam man; or, the young inventor's trip to the far west Frank Reade, Jr., and his new steam man; or, the young inventor's trip to the far west Cover of Frank Reade, Jr., with his new steam horse in the great American desert Frank Reade, Jr., with his new steam horse in the great American desert Cover of Frank Reade, Jr., with his new steam man in Mexico Frank Reade, Jr., with his new steam man in Mexico

Wrote across

1890s1900s

Recurring themes

AdventureHard SFJuvenile

Kindred authors shared themes

Frank Belknap LongFrank R. StocktonVictor AppletonAlan Edward NourseAlbert DaiberAlfred CoppelAnonymousArthur Conan Doyle

Contemporaries writing in the same era

H. G. WellsL. Frank BaumE. NesbitJohn Kendrick BangsWilliam MorrisAnonymousFrances Hodgson BurnettJack LondonJules VerneRudyard Kipling

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