Luis Senarens 2 hr 19 min read

A strange story out of Yucatan draws inventor Frank Reade Jr. and his wonderful Steam Man south to Central America on the trail of an old college friend.

Luis Senarens's 1902 dime novel, under the 'Noname' byline, is a lively Frank Reade invention-adventure amid the jungles and ruins of Central America. Fast, illustrated juvenile SF. Read it for a classic 'Edisonade' romp, a striding mechanical man and a teen genius chasing mystery in the tropics.

In its time

Published in 1902, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 19 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).