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George Chetwynd Griffith

Lifespan
1857 – 1906
Nationality
British
Active
1893 – 1978
Works held
7

George Chetwynd Griffith (1857–1906) was, for a few years in the 1890s, the most popular science-fiction writer in Britain. The Angel of the Revolution (1893), airship-armed revolutionaries seizing the world, launched a wave of future-war fiction, and he is credited with early uses of ‘death ray’ and ‘space explorer’. His anti-American streak kept him from success in the US, and he is now unjustly obscure.

The works

  1. 1978
    Cover of The Romance of Golden Star ... The Romance of Golden Star ...
  2. 1976
    Cover of The mummy and Miss Nitocris : a phantasy of the fourth dimension The mummy and Miss Nitocris : a phantasy of the fourth dimension
  3. 1974
    Cover of A Honeymoon in Space A Honeymoon in Space
  4. 1910
    Cover of The World Peril of 1910 The World Peril of 1910
  5. 1903
    Cover of The World Masters The World Masters
  6. 1894
    Cover of Olga Romanoff Olga Romanoff
  7. 1893
    Cover of The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror

Wrote across

1890s1900s1910s1970s

Recurring themes

DystopiaMilitary SFHard SFSpace OperaPost-ApocalypticLost WorldFantasyAdventure

Kindred authors shared themes

Nelson S. BondPoul AndersonRandall GarrettStephen MarloweBryce WaltonC. M. KornbluthEdmond HamiltonFritz Leiber

Contemporaries writing in the same era

H. G. WellsL. Frank BaumEdgar Rice BurroughsLuis SenarensE. NesbitLord DunsanyAlgernon BlackwoodJohn Kendrick BangsJack LondonVictor Appleton

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