Luis Senarens

Luis Senarens

Luis Senarens (1863-1939) was an American dime novel writer specializing in science fiction, once called "the American Jules Verne".

Senarens grew up in a Cuban-American family in Brooklyn.cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BjI4-qex0JgC
title=The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning until 1950
author=Mike Ashley
year=2000
publisher=Liverpool University Press
isbn=0853238553]

He took over the Frank Reade adventure story series around 1882, introducing Frank Reade, Jr. as the new main character, and adding elements such as electricity. They were highly 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) penned by Senarens under the pseudonym Noname.cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=uVw-SnIn8dgC
title=Science/fiction Collections: Fantasy, Supernatural & Weird Tales
author=Halbert W. Hall
year=1983
publisher=Haworth Press
isbn=0917724496] Mike Ashley calls him "the first prolific writer of science fiction." He would eventually write more than 300 dime novels.

In 1917 Senarens became the editor of the Tousey detective story periodical, "Mystery Magazine".

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