Jack Wright and His Electric Stage (Esprios Classics) Paperback – June 7, 2021 by Noname

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Luis Philip Senarens (1865-1939) was an American dime novel writer specializing in science fiction, once called “the American Jules Verne”. 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. The stories were very successful, and by the 1890s Senarens was asked by publisher Frank Tousey to write a similar series featuring 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 calls him “the first prolific writer of science fiction”. He would eventually write more than 300 dime novels.