Luis Senarens 2 hr 24 min read

A kidnapping draws inventor Frank Reade Jr. and his wonderful Steam Man south of the border for hot work in Mexico.

Luis Senarens's 1892 dime novel, under the 'Noname' byline, is a fast Frank Reade invention-adventure amid Mexican peril. Illustrated, wild juvenile SF of its era. Read it for a period pulp romp, a striding mechanical man and a teen genius plunged into danger below the Rio Grande.

In its time

Published in 1892, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 24 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).