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	The SF Formula of the "Edisonade" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The dominant literary platform for the Edisonade were the dime novels, however.
		It codified the formula of the "Edisonade," depicting the feats of men similar to "Thomas Edison, the inventor and self-promoting entrepreneur," the character of the successful businessman-inventor.
		To sum it up, the "Edisonade" is a combination of the idea of the "nerd," the boy inventor, and science fiction's fascination with genius and brain power and thus is a central strand of SF.
	www.english.uiowa.edu /faculty/landon/brooks/tlucht/mysf-edisonade.html (397 words)

	Definitions of Steampunk by: Cory Gross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Specifically, Steampunk is a relatively new genre within Science Fiction set upon imitation or critique of the style, technology, characters and/or themes of Scientific Romance, Imperialist Adventure, Edisonades and Voyages Extraordinaires, often with the inclusion of Gothic horror elements.
		Edisonades, named for inventor Thomas Edison, are an American equivalent to the Imperialist Adventure.
		The hero of an Edisonade is usually a young male who invents some fantastic weapon and/or transportation device which allows him to explore some territorial frontier, overcome obstacles (which usually include non-white races) and make his fame and fortune, exemplifying 19th century American virtues of ingenuity and entrepreneurialism.
	www.wouldthatitwere.com /definitionofsteampunk.htm (1191 words)

	Fantastic Victoriana: E
		Edison's Conquest of Mars is an Edisonade written for adults--a rarity for the time.
		Tom Ed being an Edisonade, he's not just content with sailing around the world, so when he encounters the survivor of Kiang Ho, he goes out and tries to stop Kiang Ho.
		The Shooting Star is similar to Verne's Clipper of the Clouds and most of the other Edisonade inventions; it is a flap-winged, propeller-driven liner-like airship, and has on board it, as a lifeboat, the Starlet, which is a much smaller version of the Shooting Star and can, like the Shooting Star, double as a submarine.
	www.geocities.com /jessnevins/vice.html (9321 words)

	Fantastic Victoriana: R
		When the Edisonade traveled outside the United States, his enemies were those of the United States itself; the October, 1891 riots in Valparaiso, Chile, between American sailors and native Chileans, had led to lasting ill-will between the United States and Chile, so the Chileans occasionally figured as the villains of an Edisonade’s story.
		At other times the Edisonade’s enemy was a social group or country whose international reputation, at the time, was low, so that Czarist Russia and the slave-trading Portuguese and the piratical Chinese were the Edisonade’s enemy.
		The Edisonade is a racist, imperialist genre full of unexamined assumptions about the superiority of the White Man and the moral righteousness of acquisitiveness and expansionism.
	www.geocities.com /jessnevins/vicr.html (18689 words)

	Mars Main Index/Myth and Science Fiction/Late Nineteenth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This story line is representative of the genre know as "Edisonade," considered to be the precursor of modern-day science fiction.
		The hero is customarily a young male, modeled on the real-life hero Thomas Alva Edison, inventor and improver of a remarkable number of innovations from the light bulb to the phonograph.
		This basic Edisonade plot has appeared in drama throughout the twentieth century.
	calspace.ucsd.edu /marsnow/library/myths_and_science_fiction/myths5-late_nineteenth_century.html (1817 words)

	ULTRAZINE
		The coming of the "space opera," what Brian Stapleford describes as "colourful action-adventure stories of interplanetary or interstellar conflict," brought the figure of the Edisonade into a new context, that of outer space.
		In each case The Man With The Machine, the Edisonade, made use of machines whose workings were only lightly justified, if at all, by actual science.
		The hard science fiction Man With The Machine began with Captain Nemo, whose ship, the Nautilus, was described in great detail and at great length, with Verne ascribing its marvels to electricity in very realistic and plausible terms.
	www.ultrazine.org /um015eng-1i.html (334 words)

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		is what has been called in the modern era an "Edisonade," a novel in which a hagiographic portrayal of Thomas Alva Edison is made into the main character.
		Generally White with a capital "W," upright, and "morally priggish" the Edisonade character was a master scientist, and had some wonderful creation or creations.
		Except for Henrietta, all the Clarence authors read Edisonade novels in their youth, and as with other dime genres, by the turn of the century the Edisonades were "following their audience" by producing adult material.
	www.vialarp.org /clarence/char_tom_edison_jr.html (997 words)

	Alan Moore Special: Jess Nevins
		An Edisonade was a boy inventor who used a machine, usually some kind of ship, to transport himself to the Western frontier and make his fortune by "civilizing" it, usually by slaughtering great numbers of natives.
		The Edisonade was one of the most popular of the dime novel forms, and Edisonade characters such as Frank Reade, Jr., Tom Edison, Jr., and Electric Bob appeared in the dime novels through the 1890s.
		After the heyday of the Edisonades ended, the figure of the brilliant if eccentric inventor whose creations were powerful weapons and vehicles remained, sometimes as comic characters, as in Clement Fezandie’s "Doctor Hackensaw" stories, but more often as heroic Thomas Edison types.
	www.ultrazine.org /ultraspeciali/UM015/nevins/nevins_english.htm (3785 words)

	Comments on the `Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'
		For, the moment the frank lad of the primitive Edisonade...
		The important early EDISONADE and SPACE OPERA forms set a pattern which still resonates in American SF, even in self-conscious reactions against the form.
		Most of the hundreds of minor writers of utopias, dystopias, edisonades and lost-race novels that rather clog the Encyclopedia's pages had no traceable influence on the living tradition of SF as it is written today.
	www.catb.org /~esr/sfreviews/sf-encyclopedia.html (14813 words)

	Red Planet (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The fictional hero inevitably uses his ingenuity to invent devices that save humanity and his friends from the terrible aliens and ultimately, in the process, uses his genius or makes a discovery that will rescue mankind.
		The hero had to fight the villains' psychological control while performing "Edisonade" feats of daring.
		Robby Gallagher, the film's "Edisonade " hero, becomes literally and figuratively the first man on Mars, as he is the first astronaut to crawl out of the MEV (Mars Entry Vehicle) onto Mars' surface.
	www.vkn.com /movies/redplanet/marsinmind.html (2746 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Steampunk
		There are frequently Lovecraftian, occult and Gothic horror influences as well.
		Inspired by the Scientific Romances, Voyages Extraordinaires and Edisonades of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Steampunk as a genre developed in the 1980s as an offshoot of, or reaction to, Cyberpunk.
		K.W. Jeter's 1979 novel Morlock Night is sometimes cited as crystallizing the genre: It incorporates elements of Wells' The Time Machine, which Jeter expands with his own ideas.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Steam_punk (2048 words)

	ZPi \| Gun-Slinging Lord Kelvin Speaks!
		Also newly available: Edison's Conquest of Mars (IEEE review with background info) -- the first full reprint with original illustrations of the unauthorized, serialized technothriller sequel to H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, written a year later in 1898 by astronomer and science journalist Garrett P. Serviss.
		The novel, a classic example of Edisonade (Victorian and Edwardian era science fiction -- see here for more info on the genre), is primarily about Thomas Edison leading a counter-attack against the Red Scourge of Mars, and features cameo appearances from other famous contemporary scientists, including a "disintegrator-gun-slinging Lord Kelvin."
		I haven't read it, but I hope while blasting Martians he gets in some good action lines like "You, like radio, have no future!" or "To measure is to know, but to disintegrate is to DIE!"
	zapatopi.net /blog/?post=200509262470.gun-slinging_lord_kelvin_speaks (173 words)

	village voice > film > by Ed Halter
		I was attracted to the look of real steam engines, as well as the drama of their inventors."
		Steamboy's story is what sci-fi aficionados would call an Edisonade, reminiscent of dime-novel boy's tales of plucky young boffins who use ingenious contraptions to outwit evil masterminds.
		In Otomo's film, a Mancunian lad is drawn into a corporate scheme to foist new weaponry upon the world, promoted with an attack on London's Great Exhibition.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0511,halter,62085,20.html (432 words)

	Mars in the Mind of Earth: Novels - Full List
		Serialized in the American magazine New Golden Hours, March 30 - May 18, 1901 as To Mars With Tesla, or the Mystery of the Hidden Worlds (Nevins).
		An Edisonade or Tesla-ade as you see fit.
		Other subtitle is Won By Sheer Luck in the 1915 edition.
	www.marsearth.com /novels/obser.html (65 words)

	Apothecary's Drawer Weblog
		This is Paul Guinan's steampunk site, originally devoted to Boilerplate - a promotion for his graphic novel of that name - but now expanded to include the Electric Man, the Steam Man and the Automatic Man.
		There's more to browse, all revolving around Guinan's comic art, largely inspired by the exploits of the late 19th century comic hero Frank Reade and other scientist-inventor heroes of that era's 'Edisonade' genre.
		The analysis of the Edisonades is interesting: Nevins quotes SF critics who argue that despite the useful influence in the development of children's SF, the genre was characterised by "very bad writing, sadism, ethnic rancor, factual ignorance and an exploitational mentality".
	www.raygirvan.co.uk /apoth/2004_01_01_arc.html (2944 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| John Clute on Jack Williamson
		Hugely silly, of course: but "The Plutonian Terror" does somehow get beneath the skin.
		The urgency of the Edisonade we're all familiar with — it defines the goals and heft and inner feel of early science fiction.
		The belatedness, whiiiiich embarasses some of us, we may wish to deny.
	www.infinitematrix.net /columns/clute/clute1.html (1216 words)

	TheFourthRail.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is a reference to the dime novel Edisonade Frank Reade and his son, Frank Reade, Jr., and his grandson, Frank Reade III.
		Frank Reade and his kin were brilliant boy inventors who used their steam- and later electric-powered inventions and vehicles to enrich themselves and kill vast members of non-WASPs.
		Wrightstown is a reference to dime novel Edisonade Jack Wright, who was created by Luis Senarens and first appeared in Boys' Star Library #216 (1891).
	www.thefourthrail.com /features/0902/loeg2-3notes.shtml (8797 words)

	Forgotten Futures 9 Worldbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Some of the stories which it calls on for inspiration are "Edisonades", in which a scientific genius triumphs over adversity.
		By way of contrast there are also three factual articles - on real inventions of the period, and the scientists Tesla and Edison.
		Ironically, Tesla seems to be a much better candidate to appear in an Edisonade than Edison himself!
	www.forgottenfutures.com /game/ff9/worldbk9.htm (7891 words)

	Netsurfer Robotics - NSR.01.06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The section on Boilerplate, the "Mechanical Man" whose war-zone exploits would make Asimo envious, is particularly rich in cosmetic documentation.
		With details drawn from and interwoven with the "edisonade" adventure stories of the period, the site has succeeded in bringing the spirit of swashbuckling invention online.
		Spielberg's sci-fi Pinocchio movie "A.I." disappeared from cinemas into video release quickly enough, but its appearance inspired a couple of wags.
	www.netsurf.com /nsr/nsr.01.06.html (2977 words)

	Forgotten Futures Worldbook 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The most obnoxious aliens are often modelled on racist lines, and there is a strong vein of xenophobia running though all these stories; "Humans Uber Alles", with "humans" defined as White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, was the spirit behind much early SF.
		The technical name for this type of story is an Edisonade, because characters are usually modelled on the American inventor; in some Edison appears as a character.
		It's essential reading on George Griffith, Edisonades, and other themes.
	www.forgottenfutures.com /game/ff2/worldbk2.htm (17055 words)

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