TY - BOOK AU - Ellis,Edward Sylvester TI - The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies AV - PS PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Robots -- Fiction KW - Dime novels N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steam_Man_of_the_Prairies; Release date is 2005-02-01; Produced by Blackmask Online. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies" by Edward Sylvester Ellis is a dime novel published in 1868. This groundbreaking work stands as the first U.S. science fiction dime novel and an early example of the "Edisonade" genre. When a Yankee and an Irishman encounter a colossal steam-powered mechanical man on the American prairies, they discover it was built by a teenage inventor who uses it to pull his carriage through frontier adventures. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7506 ER -