Category
page 1Edisonades
Tom Swift
fictional literary character and book series
The Future Eve
1886 novel by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Edison's Conquest of Mars
1947 novel by Garrett Putnam Serviss
The Skylark of Space
1928 novel by Edward Elmer Smith
Edisonade
Edisonade is a genre of 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 was introduced in 1990 by John Clute and popularized in 1993 in his and Peter Nicholls' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. It is an eponym, named after famous inventor Thomas Edison, formed in the same way the term "Robinsonad