S1E22 -Chapter Twenty-Two: Terror In The Skies!
On ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION, by George Griffith
As the 19th Century wound to a close, there was something in the air...or at least, people thought there soon would be. The idea of heavier-than-air flight and the potential military applications haunted SF decades before they became a reality; George Griffith's turn-of-the-century novel Angel of the Revolution imagined this technology falling into the hands of the good (?) guys and becoming the basis for a worldwide uprising in the midst of an apocalyptic war. The book also eerily foreshadowed an amazing number of real-world events that were still to come, including WWI and the Soviet revolution. In this episode we're joined once more by Jess Nevins to look at his novel, in which the Victorian era dreams uneasily of its own demise...
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