Эдисонада: Ғылыми-фантастикалық әңгімелер жанры

Literary genre
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 1993 by John Clute 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 "Robinsonade" was formed from Robinson Crusoe.

The earliest example of the genre as expressed in young adult fiction is considered to be "The Steam Man of the Prairies" by Edward S. Ellis (1868), featuring fictional inventor Johnny Brainerd. The Frank Reade series first appeared in 1876, written by Harold Cohen (1854–1927) under the pseudonyms Harry Enton and "Noname." The first was "Frank Reade and His Steam Man of the Plains". After four titles, the series was continued as the adventures of Frank Reade, Jr., written by ultra prolific boys' fiction author Luis Senarens as "Noname". In Auguste Villiers de l'Isle Adam's 1886 novel The Future Eve Thomas Edison is tasked with the construction of a female android. A series of stories featuring "Tom Edison, Jr." by Philip Reade were published between 1891 and 1892. The story "Tom Edison's Electric Mule, or, The Snorting Wonder of the Plains" (1892) is a parody of the earlier Frank Reade series. The Jack Wright series was created and written by Luis Senarens. The character first appeared in 1891, and was the subject of 121 stories. which added a touch of wittiness and oddity to the genre. The original Tom Swift series of juvenile books are a continuation of the genre in the juveniles that followed dime novels. The Skylark of Space, considered to be the first space opera, begins as an edisonade before transitioning to the novel genre. A Pause in Space Time by science fiction author Laurence Dahners is a modern edisonade about an impoverished but mathematically brilliant college student who invents a way to stop time in small, portable bits of space.