Luis Senarens 2 hr 44 min read

The young inventor lays a diver out senseless with the flat of his spade, as Frank Reade, Jr. and his marvelous machine hunt sunken galleon's gold on the floor of the sea.

Luis Senarens's 1895 dime novel is a rousing invention-adventure from the beloved Frank Reade, Jr. series. Fast, colorful, gloriously pulpy. Read it for a classic Edisonade, a boy genius, his fantastic submarine, and a treasure-hunting deep-sea quest full of villainy and derring-do, from a founding forerunner of American SF.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 44 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).