@booklet {731, title = {The World Below}, year = {1929}, note = {

Rpt. London: Books for Today, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Longman, Green, 1930. and Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. These eds. include both 1924 Wright, The Amphibians and The World Below. The World Below is rpt. separately Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949; Shasta ed. rpt. with the subtitle A pulse-pumping, mind-prodding, sequel to THE AMPHIBIANS , . . just as haunting as that masterpiece of Earth\’s far-distant future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 5. New York: World Editions, [1949].\ 

}, month = {1929}, publisher = {W. Collins Sons}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Part I repeats 1924 Wright.\ The Amphibians. The rest, entitled \“The World Below\”, presents \“The Dwellers\”, an advanced humanity who rule the world. The Dwellers are free of disease and injury. As they age, the body remains strong, but the mind begins to lose vitality and longs for death, which it ultimately wills to happen. Very few women were being born and the end of the race was possible.\ A non-utopian authorized sequel is Brian [Michael] Stableford, The World Beyond Being a Sequel to S. Fowler Wright\’s Classic Science Fiction Novel, The World Below. [Rockville, MD]: The Borgo Press, 2009; 2nd ed. [Holicong, PA]: The Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2013.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965)} }