The Angel of the Revolution tells the tale of a group of self-styled 'terrorists' who conquer the world through airship warfare. Led by a crippled, brilliant Russian Jew and his daughter, the 'angel' Natasha, 'The Brotherhood of Freedom' establishes a 'pax aeronautica' over the earth after a young inventor masters the technology of flight in 1903. The hero falls in love with Natasha and joins in her war against established society in general and the Russian Czar in particular.

George Griffith (1857–1906) was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Griffith was extremely popular in the United Kingdom, in part due to his utopian socialist views. Being a journalist, rather than scientist, what his stories lack in scientific rigor and literary grace they make up for in sheer exuberance of execution.