George Chetwynd Griffith ~9 hr read

A secret brotherhood of anarchists masters the air with terrible new war-machines, and from their inner circle the crippled genius Natas and his daughter set out to remake the world by force.

George Griffith's 1893 novel is a hugely influential dystopian and military-SF tale of aerial warfare and world revolution. Vivid, prophetic, sweeping. Read it for a founding classic of the future-war genre, where mastery of the skies lets a shadowy order topple the nations and impose a new order upon the coming century.

In its time

Published in 1893, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~9 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Fred T. Jane