Title: You get the story in print, but that's about it.
Review: Ellis' Steam Man of the Prairies is a landmark in American science fiction that's not readily available in print. I appreciate Dodo Press's work in putting this into an inexpensive paperback edition, but the finished product is a bit disappointing.The edition is filled with printing typos. While that may be in the spirit of the old time "dime novels" where the story first appeared, it should've been edited more carefully for today's readers. It also contains no real background information about the story. There's no intro or afterword, no print history, no pictures (which is a shame, because the tale inspired plenty of artistic interpretations, even in the cheap reprints of the late 19th century). This edition is as bare-bones as it gets.
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