Luis Senarens 2 hr 50 min read

In his electric submarine the Dolphin, boy-inventor Frank Reade Jr. hunts the elusive Silver Whale beneath the ocean, battling sharks and worse in the deep.

Luis Senarens's 1903 dime novel, under the 'Noname' byline, is a fast Frank Reade undersea invention-adventure. Breathless, illustrated juvenile SF. Read it for classic turn-of-the-century pulp thrills, a fantastic submarine, a teen genius, and a strange quarry in the ocean depths.

In its time

Published in 1903, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 50 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).