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n. (context neologism English) a genre of science fiction and adventure fiction featuring a brilliant robust inventor, engineer or scientist hero who has an adventure in the wilds of the world, created from the mid-19th century to early 20th century, mostly American
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"Edisonade" is a modern term, coined in 1993 by John Clute in his and Peter Nicholls' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, for 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 is an eponym, named after famous inventor Thomas Edison, formed in the same way the term " Robinsonade" was formed from Robinson Crusoe.
Usage examples of "edisonade".
Alexei Tolstoy, a distant relative of Leo, wrote a communist edisonade in 1922, Aelita.
Much of sf, not just the edisonade, embraces a larger idea: to know is to control.
This describes a small list of obvious edisonades: Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898) was a direct American reply to Wells's The War of the Worlds.