From Zone to Zone with His Latest Invention: The Wonderful Trip of Frank Reade, Jr.

From Zone to Zone: It is easy to imagine that the steampunk movement — science fiction featuring steam-powered inventions and a 19th-century style — is purely a modern invention, an exercise in "what if there had been a Victorian equivalent to today's sci-fi genre?" However, early science fiction actually included much more than just the well-remembered works of literary figures like Jules Verne, and there really were a wealth of popular stories about steam-powered robots and other wild inv...