The Angel of the Revolution

[Dave Monroe]

THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION
A Tale of the Coming Terror
BY GEORGE GRIFFITH
AUTHOR OF "OLGA ROMANOFF" "THE OUTLAWS OF THE AIR"
ETC. ETC.

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OLGA ROMANOFF
OR The Syren of the Skies
A SEQUEL TO "THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION"
BY GEORGE GRIFFITH

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THE OUTLAWS OF THE AIR
BY GEORGE GRIFFITH
AUTHOR OF "THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION'S "OLGA ROMANOFF; OR, THE SYREN
OF THE SKIES" ETC. ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. S. HOPE

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After the success of Admiral Philip H. Colomb's 'The Great War of
1892' (itself a version of the more famous The Battle of Dorking),
Griffith, then on the staff of Pearson's Magazine, submitted a
synopsis for a story entitled 'The Angel of the Revolution'. It
remains his best and most famous work. It was the first synthesis of
the 'marvel' tale epitomised by Jules Verne, featuring futuristic
flying machines, compressed air guns and spectacular areal combat, the
'future war' tales of Chesney and his imitators and the political
utopianism of Morris's News from Nowhere. He wrote a sequel,
serialised as 'The Syren of the Skies' in the magazine and published
as a novel under the title of its main character Olga Romanoff.

Although eternally overshadowed by H. G. Wells, Griffith's epic
fantasies of romantic anarchists in a future world of war dominated by
airship battlefleets and grandiose engineering provided a template for
steampunk novels a century before the term was coined. The influence
of books such as "The Angel of the Revolution" and the character of
Olga Romanoff on British fantasy writer Michael Moorcock is striking.

Though a less accomplished writer than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard
Kipling and H.G. Wells, his novels were as popular in their
day[citation needed] and foreshadowed World War I and the Russian
Revolutions and the concepts of the air to surface missile and VTOL
aircraft[citation needed]. He wrote several tales of adventure set on
contemporary earth, while 'The Outlaws of the Air' depicted a future
of aerial warfare and the creation of a Pacific island utopia. Sam
Moskowitz described him as "undeniably the most popular science
fiction writer in England between 1893 and 1895." ...

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