An Evil Emperor. A Titanic Struggle. Daring Rescues. Flying Ships. Mind Control. A Small Band Of Rebels Led By A Beautiful Woman. When young inventor Richard Arnold cracks the problem of heavier than air flight in 1903, his discovery becomes the key ...
This work of fiction is brimming with action and international politics. Narrated in a manner that befits the theme, the work monopolizes the reader's attention from the outset. With characters drawn with great precision and depth, and with the invol...
George Griffith, though almost forgotten today, was one of the most popular writers of his own time. He was a contemporary of the great British writers H. Rider Haggard, H.G. Wells, and A. Conan Doyle. "Valdar the Oft-Born" is a fantasy of reincarnat...
Take an unforgettable trip to another plane of existence in The Mummy and Miss Nitocriss: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension, a wild, rollicking sci-fi novel from author George Chetwynd Griffith. This tale blends a remarkable melange of zany characte...
Intrepid explorer and wildly imaginative writer George Chetwynd Griffith penned a series of science fiction novels that brought new life to the then-nascent genre. The World Masters is a gripping, futuristic tale that explores the unforeseen conseque...
The Adventures of Rollo Aubrey, Earl of Redgrave, and his bride, Lilla Zaidie is a collection of science fiction stories by George Griffith. Each was published in magazines or books and later compiled into this single volume. Included here are: A VIS...
The World Peril of 1910 (originally published as the short story The Great Crellin Comet) was the first to address the consequences of a collision with the kinetic energy in a comet. It was also the birth of the countdown. The World Peril of 1910 int...
Stories In Other Worlds of George Griffith. This has been described as: "A lurid mix of Jules Verne's futuristic air warfare fantasies, utopian vision, and war invasion literature." Steampunk anyone? The internal illustrations are by Fred T Jane -...
TOGETHER AGAIN is a tale of the journey of two early-bonded then separated parakeets, Carlos and Angelina, and two bonded caretakers who also become separated. With both birds and humans following their hearts, this love drama is another bird book to...
THE COLLECTED SCIENCE FICTION OF GEORGE GRIFFITH includes 17 works by pioneering science fiction writer George Chetwynd Griffith. Griffith (1857-1906) was an English writer and explorer whose exploits including three journeys around the world, one w...
Despite the venerable antiquity of the saying, it is not always true that "Out of evil cometh good," but certainly out of the apparent evil of the snow- burst which, on the morning of a Christmas Eve not many winters ago, suddenly buried H. M. Prison...
These three sci-fi novels from the dawn of the twentieth century are among the first works of fiction to imagine visiting other planets. A Honeymoon in Space: Lenox, the Earl of Redgrave, has invented a flying ship with the power to break free ...
George Chetwyn Griffith-Jones (1857-1906) was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Many of his visionary tales appeared in magazines such as Pearson's Magazine and Pearson...
George Chetwyn Griffith-Jones (1857-1906) was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Many of his visionary tales appeared in magazines such as Pearson's Magazine and Pearson...
Imagine a honeymoon in a place no one else has ever been to - a honeymoon in the universe...Lenox Redgrave is a charming English Lord who had designed an amazing ride, never seen before - a space ship that can travel beyond the atmosphere of the Eart...
George Chetwyn Griffith-Jones (1857-1906) was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Many of his visionary tales appeared in magazines such as Pearson's Magazine and Pearson...
Title: The Outlaws of the Air, etc.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 millio...
The Romance of Golden Star is an adventurous story about the restoration of the lost Incan Empire. "They were standing over a long packing-case, some seven feet in length and two and a-half in breadth, in which lay, at full length, wrapped in grave-c...