Books by George Chetwynd Griffith

"Olga Romanoff" is a 1894 science fiction novel by George Griffith.. A sequel to "The Angel of the Revolution", It continues the story of the global group of anarchists who fight the government with incredible airships. George Griffith (1857-1906) was a popular British science fiction writer and explorer during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. In England his works enjoyed great success, although his fame did not spread to America in part due to his utopian socialist political views. Other notable works by this author include: "The Outlaws of the Air" (1895), "Valdar the Oft-Born: A Saga of Seven Ages" (1895), and "Briton or Boer? A Tale of the Fight for Africa" (1897). This volume will appeal to lovers of classic science fiction and would make for a worthy addition to allied collections. Many vintage book such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with the original text and artwork.

'The Angel of the Revolution' is part of a relatively new literary genre, the British speculative future war novel. Interpretated in many ways - fin-de-siecle, technophobia, British imperialism - they anticipated modern science fiction.