George Griffith

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For George Griffith, the former Headmaster of The Perse School, see The Perse School

George Griffith (full name George Chetwyn Griffith-Jones; (1857–1906)) was a British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the turn of the 20th century. His works appeared in magazines such as Pearson's Magazine. Griffith was never popular in the United States due to his socialist and anti-democratic veiws, and was overshadowed by HG Wells.

As an explorer he broke a record for travelling around the world, and also helped discover the source of the Amazon river.

Sam Moskowitz described him as "undeniably the most popular science fiction writer in England between 1893 and 1895."

[edit] Partial list of works

  • The Romance of Golden Star (1891; the title is sometimes given erroneously as The Romance of the Golden Star, but Golden Star is actually the name of an Inca character, not an object)
  • The Angel of Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893)
  • Olga Romanoff or, The Syren of the Skies (1894)
  • The Outlaws of the Air (1895)
  • A Honeymoon in Space (1901) (fixup of series first published in Pearson's Magazine as Stories of Other Worlds)
  • The World Peril of 1910 (1907)

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