Edisonades

fictional literary character and book series

1886 novel by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

1947 novel by Garrett Putnam Serviss

1928 novel by Edward Elmer Smith

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