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Direct linkSheffield, Caroline C.; Carano, Kenneth T.; Berson, Michael J. – Social Education, 2008
This article describes the Frank Reade dime novels, published in 1882, that are now recognized as the beginnings of the modern science fiction novel in the United States. They illustrate the hope that Americans of the time held for the future that newly invented technology could offer. Although the Frank Reade stories highlighted the promise of…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Science Fiction, Novels, Social Studies
