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Sydney Fowler Wright was born on January 6, 1874, in Smethwick, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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First published in 1927, Deluge is one of the most famous of the English catastrophe novels. Beautifully written and action packed—RKO Radio Pictures even filmed this story—the novel depicts a flood so severe that it destroys modern civilization, leaving the few survivors to adapt to the rigors of the natural world. Like other English writers responding to the trauma of World War I, Sydney Fowler Wright expresses a loathing of the worst aspects of industrialization. The flood, in his view, becomes an opportunity for the remaking of society. The protagonists soon realize that civilization and technology have divorced them from the knowledge and skills necessary for survival. Released from their over-reliance on social regulation, they struggle to overcome their own brutality to develop a new sense of community. For over 75 years readers have praised this book for its style and wisdom, and debated the meaning of its controversial ending. This Wesleyan edition is graced with an excellent introduction and annotations by leading science fiction scholar Brian Stableford.
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1927
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Literary Thoughts edition presents The Amphibians by S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright ------ In "The Amphibians" from 1930, author S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright (1874–1965) describes a Far-Future Earth where mankind is extinct and new intelligent species, like the eponymous Amphibians and the troglodytic Dwellers Underground, are engaged in their own struggle for existence ... All books of the Literary Thoughts edition have been transscribed from original prints and edited for better reading experience. Please visit our homepage www.literarythoughts.com to see our other publications.
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1930
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Literary Thoughts edition presents The World Below by S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright ------ "The World Below" is a science fiction novel by author S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright (1874–1965), concerning a man who has travelled 500,000 years into the future with the aid of a time machine. He encounters the Amphibians, a race of intelligent furry beings, with whom he explores the planet, and is later captured by super-intelligent beings who direct the destinies of the planet, the so-called Dwellers. All books of the Literary Thoughts edition have been transscribed from original prints and edited for better reading experience. Please visit our homepage www.literarythoughts.com to see our other publications.
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Literary Thoughts edition presents The Island of Captain Sparrow by S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright ------ "The Island of Captain Sparrow" by author S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright (1874–1965) is a mystery novel from 1928: An island in the Pacific Ocean has some mysterious inhabitants. Could they have anything to do with the legendary pirate Captain Andrew Sparrow of the Fighting Sue?. All books of the Literary Thoughts edition have been transscribed from original prints and edited for better reading experience. Please visit our homepage literarythoughts.com to see our other publications.
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(Author S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright (1874–1965) wrote his "T...)
Author S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright (1874–1965) wrote his "The World Below" as a science fiction novel, telling the adventures of a man who has travelled 500,000 years into the future with the aid of a time machine. Encountering the Amphibians, a race of intelligent furry beings, helps him to explore the planet, before he is captured by the so-called Dwellers, a group of super-intelligent beings who direct the destinies of the planet.
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An excerpt from the beginning of the story: The first evidence that can now be discovered of the gradually intensified feeling which resulted, ten years later, in what has since become known as the Mayday Massacre, is contained in an article on a quite different subject in the Traffic Times of October 22nd, 1962. This is no more than a passing allusion to 'the salutary effects of accelerated traffic' in reducing the number of the infirm and aged members of the community; but, casual though it may be, it is evidence, perhaps the stronger for that very quality, of the impatience of the younger generation at the burden which had been laid upon them by the careful prudence of their parents, and by the advances of preventive medicine and operative surgery. It was four years later - in 1966 - that the question was first raised in Parliament, and it was the following year that saw the passing of the Amended Penalties (Traffic and Roadways) Act, which provided a scale of fines for the fatal wounding or disabling of persons of not more than thirty years of an almost absurd severity, rising to a maximum of £63, but with a descending scale for persons above that age, until at sixty-five there was an absence of any legal penalty for such homicides, and for persons of sixty-eight years and over it was enacted that their estates or relatives should be responsible for any delay or expense occasioned to any motorist through their neglect or inability to get out of his way with the required celerity.
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Sydney Fowler Wright was born on January 6, 1874, in Smethwick, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Wright left King Edward’s School at the age of eleven and spent his adolescence studying literature when not working.
Wright spent his early literary career as a poet, a translator of poetry, and an editor of poetry magazines and anthologies. He turned to fantasy fiction in the 1920s; Deluge, perhaps his greatest popular success, was published in 1927. It was 1924, however, when Wright’s own publishing house, Merton Press, issued his first novel, The Amphibians: A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence.
In 1934, Wright visited Nazi Germany to write a series of newspaper articles. Alarmed at what he saw, he wrote three novels about a future war in Europe: Prelude in Prague: The War of 1938, Four Days' War, and Mediggo's Ridge.
When World War II did arrive, it found Wright turning out mystery novels at a steady rate, an activity that, in England, supported the war effort by furnishing reading matter to soldiers and sailors. Although in the view of the writer in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Wright's abilities as an author were diminishing during this period, he published a well-received collection of science fiction stories.
After the war Wright continued writing and died in 1965, leaving several unpublished manuscripts that have since found their way into print.
(An excerpt from the beginning of the story: The first evi...)
(First published in 1927, Deluge is one of the most famous...)
1927(Literary Thoughts edition presents The Island of Captain ...)
(Literary Thoughts edition presents The World Below by S. ...)
(Literary Thoughts edition presents The Amphibians by S. (...)
1930(Small blue boards with silver title on spine.)
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During a lifetime that spanned over ninety years, S. Fowler Wright married, was widowed, remarried, and fathered and supported ten children.
His first wife's name was Nellie Ashbarry. In two years after her death in 1918, Wright married his second wife Truda Hancock. From the first marriage, he had three sons and three daughters, and with his second wife, he raised one son and three daughters.