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.jpg) Illustration by Fred T. Jane, page 284 of The Angel of the Revolution | |
| Author | George Griffith |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Set in | 1903–1905 |
| Publication place | UK |
| Media type | book |
The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by the English writer George Griffith. It was his first published novel and remains his most famous work. It was first published in Pearson's Weekly and was prompted by the success of "The Great War of 1892" in Black and White magazine, which was itself inspired by The Battle of Dorking.
A lurid mix of Jules Verne's futuristic air warfare fantasies and the utopian visions of News from Nowhere, and a precursor of H. G. Wells' future The War in the Air and the war invasion literature of George Tomkyns Chesney and his imitators, it tells the tale of a group of self-styled 'terrorists' who conquer the world through airship warfare. Led by a crippled, brilliant Russian Jew and his daughter, the 'angel' Natasha, 'The Brotherhood of Freedom' establish a 'pax aeronautica' over the earth after a young inventor masters the technology of flight in 1903. Protagonist Richard Arnold falls in love with Natasha and joins in her war against established society in general and the Russian tsar in particular.[1]
A sequel, The Syren of the Skies, appeared in Pearson's Weekly and was published in book form as Olga Romanoff in 1894.
- ^ Angel of the Revolution (Archived 25 July 2023 at the Wayback Machine) via Google Books.