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Jack Wright (fictional Character)
Jack Wright was the hero of a popular series of Victorian science fiction dime novels and story papers written by Luis Senarens, the so-called "American Jules Verne". A few stories are also credited to Francis W. Doughty. Jack appeared in original stories from in 1891 to 1896 in 120 novels. He first appeared in The Boys' Star Library No. 216, July 18, 1891, "Jack Wright, the Boy Inventor; or, Hunting for a Sunken Treasure". Senarens also popularized the Frank Reade dime novel series, having taken the reins from Harry Enton (real name Harold Cohen). Jack Wright appeared in Frank Tousey's ''Boys of New York'' and ''Boys' Star Library'', and then migrated to ''Golden Weekly'' and ''Happy Days'' story papers. These stories were later reprinted in the dime novel ''Pluck and Luck''. Jack Wright is one of the so-called Edisonade characters. The stories were reprinted by Aldine in the UK first in the ''Cheerful Library'' and then in the ''Invention, Travel & Adventure Library''. Example ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Reade
Frank Reade was the protagonist of a series of dime novels published primarily for boys. The first novel, ''Frank Reade and His Steam Man of the Plains'', an imitation of Edward S. Ellis, Edward Ellis's ''The Steam Man of the Prairies'' (1868), was written by Harry Enton and serialized in the Frank Tousey juvenile magazine ''Boys of New York,'' February 28 through April 24, 1876. The four Frank Reade stories concerned adventures with the character's inventions, various robot-like mechanisms powered by steam. A very long series of juvenile novels followed which featured the son of Frank Reade, ''Frank Reade Jr.'', as its teenaged inventor-hero. These stories were written by Luis Senarens, Luis P. Senarens (1865–1939) with the pseudonym ''Noname''. Extremely popular during their time, they were often reprinted and new stories have been created as recently as 2011, in the pulp short story collection, ''Wildthyme in Purple''. They were first serialized in ''Boys of New York'', the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noname (Luis Senarens)
No Name or Noname may refer to: Geography *No Name, Colorado *No Name Key, an island in the Florida Keys *No Name Tunnel, located near the town in Colorado Art, entertainment, and media Fictional entities *No-Name (character), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe *No Name (''Nanashi''), the protagonist of the anime film ''Sword of the Stranger'' Literature * ''No Name'' (novel), an 1862 novel by Wilkie Collins *Noname, a pen-name of Luis Senarens Music Artists *Noname (rapper), American rapper, poet, and record producer *No Name (Montenegrin band) *No Name (Slovak band) *NO NAME, a subgroup of nine members from the Japanese girl group AKB48, formed to provide the singing and voices for the Japanese TV Series ''AKB0048'' *(K)NoW_NAME, a Japanese musical unit Albums *''No Name'', a studio album by Irish singer Ryan O'Shaughnessy * ''No Name'' (EP) a 2022 EP Songs * "No Name" (Ryan O'Shaughnessy song), 2012 * "No Name" (NF song), 2018 *"No Name Nos. 1-4", four songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dime Novel
The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term ''dime novel'' has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five- and ten-cent weeklies, "thick book" reprints, and sometimes early pulp magazines.The English equivalents were generally called penny dreadfuls or shilling shockers. The German and French equivalents were called "Groschenromane" and "livraisons à dix centimes", respectively. American firms also issued foreign editions of many of their works, especially as series characters came into vogue. The term was used as a title as late as 1940, in the short-lived pulp magazine ''Western Dime Novels''. In the modern age, the term ''dime novel'' has been used to refer to quickly written, lurid potboilers, usually as a pejorative to describe a sensationalized but superficial literary work. History In 1860, the publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Story Paper
A story paper is a periodical publication similar to a literary magazine, but featuring illustrations and text stories, and aimed towards children and teenagers. Also known in Britain as "boys' weeklies", story papers were phenomenally popular before the outbreak of the Second World War. Among the most well-known British story papers was '' Boy's Own Paper'', which ran from 1879 to 1967. Beginnings The first known edition of what would later become known as a "story paper" was ''The Young Gentleman's Magazine'', published in 1777. The first story paper to really take off was ''The Boys' and Girls' Penny Magazine'', first published in September 1832. In 1866, Charles Stephens began selling ''Boys of England'' on the English streets for a penny—the first " penny dreadful". Story papers in this style minimized the expense of writing in order to produce an extremely cheap product. Strictly speaking, the "penny dreadful" died off by the turn of the century, but this term was sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Senarens
Luis Philip Senarens (April 24, 1863 – December 26, 1939) was an American dime novel writer specializing in science fiction, once called "the American Jules Verne". Biography Senarens grew up in a Cuban-American family in Brooklyn. Around 1882, Senarens began writing new stories in the Frank Reade adventure story series begun by Harry Enton in 1868. Senarens introduced Frank Reade, Jr. as the new main character. Senarens added elements such as electricity, airships, and helicopters which resulted in him being called "the American Jules Verne." The stories were very successful, and by the 1890s Senarens was asked by publisher Frank Tousey to write a similar series featuring Jack Wright (fictional character), Jack Wright, the "Boy Inventor". Later in the decade, Tousey created the ''Frank Reade Library'', a periodical devoted to "invention" stories, largely (or wholly) composed by Senarens using the pseudonym Noname. Mike Ashley (writer), Mike Ashley calls him "the first prolific w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis W
Francis may refer to: People *Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome *Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Francis (surname) Places *Rural Municipality of Francis No. 127, Saskatchewan, Canada * Francis, Saskatchewan, Canada ** Francis (electoral district) * Francis, Nebraska *Francis Township, Holt County, Nebraska * Francis, Oklahoma *Francis, Utah Other uses * ''Francis'' (film), the first of a series of comedies featuring Francis the Talking Mule, voiced by Chill Wills *''Francis'', a 1983 play by Julian Mitchell *FRANCIS, a bibliographic database * ''Francis'' (1793), a colonial schooner in Australia *Francis turbine, a type of water turbine *Francis (band), a Sweden-based folk band * Francis, a character played by YouTuber Boogie2988 See also *Saint Francis (other) *Francies, a surname, including a list of people with the name *Francisco (other) *Franci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pluck And Luck
''Pluck and Luck: Complete Stories of Adventure'' was an American dime novel first published by Frank Tousey and was the longest-running dime novel.''The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book'', J. Randolph Cox, Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 0313256748 (ebook 0313095361). It numbered 1605 issues from January 12, 1898 to March 5, 1929. The 32-page magazine was semi-monthly for the first 22 issues and then weekly. Its size was 8 x 11 inches (through No. 1144) and 6 x 9 inches thereafter, and it featured color covers. Issues 1002 to 1464 were published by Harry Wolff and the rest by Westbury. It primarily featured stories of adventure covering subjects including fire fighters, railroads, American Revolution, the American Civil War, frontier, finance and success, temperance, circus A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edisonade
"Edisonade" is a term, coined in 1993 by John Clute in his and Peter Nicholls' ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', for fictional stories about a brilliant young inventor and his inventions, many of which would now be classified as science fiction. This subgenre started in the Victorian and Edwardian eras and had its apex of popularity during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Other related terms for fiction of this type include scientific romances. The term is an eponym, named after famous inventor Thomas Edison, formed in the same way the term "Robinsonade" was formed from ''Robinson Crusoe''. History Usually first published in cheaply printed dime novels, most such stories were written to appeal to young boys. The Edisonade formula was an outgrowth of the fascination with engineering and technology that arose near the end of the 1800s, and a derivative of the existing Robinsonade formula. Clute defines the word in his book: As used here the term "edisonade"—d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback (; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish–American editor and magazine publisher, whose publications including the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the " Hugos". Personal life Gernsback was born in 1884 in Luxembourg City, to Berta (Dürlacher), a housewife, and Moritz Gernsbacher, a winemaker. His family was Jewish. Gernsback emigrated to the United States in 1904 and later became a naturalized citizen. He married three times: to Rose Harvey in 1906, Dorothy Kantrowitz in 1921, and Mary Hancher in 1951. In 1925, he founded radio station WRNY, which was broadcast from the 18th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. In 1928, WRNY aired some of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Series Of Books
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. Publishers' reprint series Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series ''The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill'' (founded by British publisher John Bell in 1777). In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the ''Collection of British and American Authors'', a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. Later British reprint series were to include the ''Routledge's Railway Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juvenile Series
Juvenile may refer to: *Juvenile status, or minor (law), prior to adulthood * Juvenile (organism) *Juvenile (rapper) (born 1975), American rapper * ''Juvenile'' (2000 film), Japanese film * ''Juvenile'' (2017 film) *Juvenile (greyhounds), a greyhound competition *Juvenile particles, a type of volcanic ejecta *A two-year-old horse in horse racing terminology See also *"The Juvenile", a song by Ace of Base *Juvenile novel **Any of "Heinlein juveniles The Heinlein juveniles are the science fiction novels written by Robert A. Heinlein for Scribner's young-adult line. Each features "a young male protagonist entering the adult world of conflict, decisions, and responsibilities." Together t ..." * Juvenile delinquency * Juvenilia, works by an author while a youth * Juvenal (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
