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The Angel of the Revolution

George Griffith

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A lurid mix of Jules Verne's futuristic air warfare fantasies, the utopian visions of News from Nowhere and the future war invasion literature of Chesney and his imitators, it tells the tale of a group of 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. The hero falls in love with Natasha and joins in her war against society in general and the Russian Czar in particular. It correctly forecasts the coming of a great war, but in pretty well all other respects widely misses the mark of the real events that followed. Nevertheless, it is a gripping and exciting story of intrigue and plot interwoven with love and romance played over a background of world war.
ew Smith to come and relieve him. A minute later Smith's head appeared at the top of the companion-ladder which led from the saloon to the wheel-house, and Arnold gave him the wheel and the course, saying at the same time to Colston—

"Now, come down and have something to eat, and then we will have a smoke and a chat and go to bed. There is nothing more to be seen until the morning, and then I will show you Petersburg as it looks from the clouds."

"If you told me you would show me the Ourals themselves, I should believe you after what I have seen," replied Colston, as together they descended the companion-way from the wheel-house to the saloon.

"Ah, I'm afraid that would be too much even for the Ariel to accomplish in the time," said Arnold. "Still, I think I can guarantee that you shall cross Europe in such time as no man ever crossed it before." [Pg 78]

CHAPTER XI.

FIRST BLOOD.

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After supper the two friends ascended to the deck saloon for a smoke, and to continue their discussion of the tremendous events in which they were so soon to be taking part. They found the Ariel flying through a cloudless sky over the German Ocean, whose white-crested billows, silvered by the moonlight, were travelling towards the north-east under the influence of the south-west breeze from which the engineer had promised himself assistance when they started.

"We seem to be going at a most frightful speed," said Colston, looking down at the water. "There's a strong south-west breeze blowing, and yet those white horses seem to be travelling quite the other way."

"Yes," replied Arnold, l

Neil 08/09/2020
I hadn't read any Griffith before and found this a very interesting work in comparison with other SF novels of the 1890s and early 1900s, such as _The Time Machine_ and _The Purple Cloud_. Griffith is very interested in ships, how they work, and the advantages that they provide, so a lot of this is
Steve 10/21/2013
Apparently this is Griffith's first and signature s.f. novel. It certainly is full of interesting concepts both high and low: war to end all wars, a progressive income tax, the intrigue of underground revolutionaries, aerial warships, international politics, advanced explosives and more.

There are re
Scott 08/05/2013
The plot concerns Richard Arnold, a young man in England at the beginning of the 20th century who devotes his life to creating the world's first fully functional airship. After years of effort, he finally succeeds, but at the expense of everything else in his life, to the point that he finds himself
J.G. Keely 07/30/2013
This one didn't hold up very well for me. Moorcock's update of the idea is a much more enjoyable read. Griffith's approach is just so juvenile much of the time--which isn't to say childish, it's more of a young man's immaturity.

The whole premise: that a powerful terrorist force is trying to destroy
Stephen 04/25/2013
An early example of a genre known, apparently, as"invasion fiction", this is a mix of early sf and political polemic. It's very much of its time, with airships regarded as the weapon that would make their possessor unbeatable and future war impossible. The idea of an Anglo-Saxon alliance being the n

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