George Griffith

(August 20, 1857 – June 4, 1906)

George Griffith (né George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones), an early British sf writer, is best known for his first novel, The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (Pearson's Weekly, January 21–October 14, 1893). Though little remembered today, he was enormously popular in his country and time, and influential on later science fiction.

He was the first sf writer to use Terra as a name for the planet Earth.

Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

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1857—1906

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