George Griffith is often accused of being Anti-American and this is cited as the reason that he is not very well known in the United States. However, after reading one or two of Griffith's works it can be said, almost without reserve, that he was not Anti-American in his literary outlook. Just the contrary, he has one of his main characters marrying an American woman whose father had made important breakthroughs in the field of physics while still living. His father-in-law died before he could build a spaceship (Imaginatively named, Astronef, which is French for spaceship) based on the ideas this American related to him.