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The World Peril of 1910 By George Chetwynd Griffith

Experience the thrilling science fiction adventure, "The World Peril of 1910," by George Griffith. In this classic tale of a future fraught with danger, invention clashes with global war, and humanity teeters on the brink. Griffith masterfully blends action and adventure with... Read Full Overview

Experience the thrilling science fiction adventure, "The World Peril of 1910," by George Griffith. In this classic tale of a future fraught with danger, invention clashes with global war, and humanity teeters on the brink. Griffith masterfully blends action and adventure with... Read Full Overview

"Can there be anything too horrible for the enemies of the Fatherland?" said the Kaiser to the pale Chancellor, with a glint in his eyes which no man in Germany cares to see.

"I must ask pardon," replied the Chancellor. "I was astonished, indeed, almost... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: ...ENTOUS EXPERIMENTOn the first day of July, 1908, a scene which was destined to become historic took place in the great Lecture Theatre in the Imperial College at Potsdam. It was just a year and a few days after the swimming race between John Castellan and the... Read Full Overview

George Griffith (1857-1906), full name George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones, 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's... Read Full Overview

In Clifden, the chief coast town of Connemara, there is a house at the end of a triangle which the two streets of the town form, the front windows of which look straight down the beautiful harbour and bay, whose waters stretch out beyond the islands which are scattered along... Read Full Overview