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Steam man of the prairies

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One of the earliest examples of steampunk literature, this 1868 tale was also among the first American science-fiction novels and the very first literary instance of a mechanical man.

Extremely popular and much imitated in its day, the story concerns a teenage inventor who constructs an automaton to help him explore the American prairie.

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Product Details
Dover Publications Inc.
0486806138 / 9780486806136
Paperback / softback
813.4
26/08/2016
United States
English
Science fiction
96 pages
22 cm