George Griffith (1894) Olga Romanoff / The Syren of the Skies first published as Pearson’s Weekly.
The novel continues (from The Angel of the Revolution) the tale of a worldwide brotherhood of anarchists fighting the world armed with fantastical airships, ending on an apocalyptic note as a comet smashes into the earth.
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