@booklet {1075, title = {The Adventures of Wyndham Smith}, year = {1938}, month = {1938}, publisher = {Herbert Jenkins}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Machine dystopia with a few rebels. \“Original Sin\” is set in a future eutopia where disease has been eliminated and all children are healthy. A decision is made that all children will be born within a five-year period every twenty-five years, which works very well. But a Doctrine of Futility spreads, and it is decided to eliminate the entire human race.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965)} } @booklet {1089, title = {The Hidden Tribe}, year = {1938}, note = {

Rpt. with the subtitle\ A Lost Race Fantasy. [Holicong, PA]: Borgo Press, 2009.

}, month = {1938}, publisher = {Robert Hale}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Lost race authoritarian dystopia in the Sahara following the practice of Egyptian pharaohs of marrying their sisters. The community has successfully practiced a eugenic program to enhance both physique and intelligence.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965)} } @booklet {6791, title = {Power}, year = {1933}, month = {[1933]}, publisher = {Jarrolds}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia based on the possession of a weapon that could destroy entire areas and the story of the rise and fall of the dictatorship that the man who controlled it produced.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965)} } @booklet {854, title = {Beyond the Rim}, year = {1932}, note = {

Rpt. with the subtitle\ A Lost Race Fantasy. [Holicong, PA]: Borgo Press, 2010.

}, month = {1932}, publisher = {Jarrolds}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Lost race religious dystopia set in Antarctica based on a group of seventeenth century English Protestants who had been shipwrecked.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965)} } @booklet {840, title = {The New Gods Lead}, year = {1932}, note = {

Enlarged as The Throne of Saturn. Sauk City, IA: Arkham House, 1949, with the addition of two stories, \“The Temperature of Gehenna Sue\”, originally published in The Witchfinder (London: Books of To-Day, [1946]), 135-48; and rpt. in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 170-79; and \“Original Sin\” [see 1938 Wright], which was written in 1936 and originally published in The Witchfinder (London: Books of To-Day, [1946]), 166-76, rpt. in Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 13 (1950): 68-73; and in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 180-87. Parts were originally published as \“Justice.\” Nash\’s Pall Mall Magazine 86.451 (December 1930): 26-29, 102, 104; rpt. in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 24-36; \“P.N. 40--and Love.\” Britannia and Eve 1.4 (August 1929): 45-48, 160-163; rpt. in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 96-120 [also pub. as \“Love in the Year 93 E.E.\” Red Book (1929): 66-69, 116, 119, 122, 124-25; rpt. in Fantasy Book 1.4 (May 1982): 73-80]; \“The Rat.\” Weird Tales 13.3 (March 1929): 337-50; rpt. as \“Where the Rat Bites.\” Fantasy: A Magazine of Thrilling Science-Fiction (UK), no. 3 (1939): 33-44; and under the original title in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 133-52; and \“Automata\” Weird Tales 14.3 (September 1929): 337-44; rpt. Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 2 (1947): 97-107; in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 121-32; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 117-132, with an editor\’s note on 115-16. In The New Gods Lead, the Table of Contents is divided into \“Where the New Gods Lead\” and \“Also\”. The first group includes \“Justice,\” \“This Night,\” \“Brain,\” \“Appeal,\” \“Proof\”; \“P.N. 40,\” and \“Automata.\” The second group includes \“The Rat,\” \“Rule,\” and \“Choice\”. There is no such division in The Throne of Saturn. \“This Night\” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 37-49; \“Brain\” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 50-74; \“Appeal\” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 75-85; \“Proof\” is rpt. in Magazine of Horror 3.2 (14) (Winter 1966/67): 29-39; and in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 86-95\’ \“Rule\” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 153-64; and \“Choice\”, which was originally published in Eve 36.473 (1929) is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright\’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 165-69.

}, month = {1932}, publisher = {Jarrolds}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A collection of stories, mostly linked by a concern with science, and eugenics in particular, from a dystopian point of view. \“Justice\” is concerned with a relaxation of penalties for killing old people in automobile accidents. \“This Night\” and \“P.N. 40\” are concerned with the manipulation of the laws so that rich, old men could have access to the most beautiful, young women. \“Brain\” describes a scientists\’ government that eliminates democracy. \“Proof\” is concerned with the elimination of the unfit, and the problems that develop. \“Original Sin\” is set in a future eutopia where disease has been eliminated and all children are healthy. A decision is made that all children will be born within a five-year period every twenty-five years, which works very well. But a Doctrine of Futility spreads, and it is decided to eliminate the entire human race.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965)} } @booklet {9266, title = {Dawn}, year = {1929}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: George G. Harrap \& Co., 1930. Rpt. as Dawn: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2009; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions\ separately paged.\ 

}, month = {1929}, publisher = {Cosmopolitan Book Co.}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1927 Wright, Deluge, that details the experiences of a number of people following the events of the Deluge as they try to first simply survive and then build the beginnings of decent life, which is where the novel ends.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965)} } @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)} } @booklet {9265, title = {Deluge}, year = {1927}, note = {

Rpt. Ed. Michael Stableford. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003 with the editor\’s \“Introduction\” (xi-lviii, 307-318), notes on the text (318-22), and a \“Bibliography\” (323-29). U.S. ed. New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1928. Serialized in the Sunday Express (June - July 1931). Rpt. as Deluge: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2010; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions separately paged.\ 

}, month = {1927}, publisher = {Fowler Wright}, address = {London}, abstract = {

For an unexplained reason, the oceans of the world flood all low-lying land and destroys contemporary civilization. The survivors discover that their reliance of technology and industry has deprived them of the skills need to survive. Those who do survive struggle to create a better life based on community and traditional skills and practices.\ 1929 Wright is a sequel.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965)} } @booklet {613, title = {The Amphibians. A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence}, year = {1924}, note = {

Rpt. London: Merton Press, 1925. 2nd ed. London: Merton Press, 1926. Also included in Wright,\ The World Below\ (London: Collins, 1929), 3-186; U.S. ed. (New York: Longmans, Green, 1930), 1-203; rpt. (Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949), 1-203. Rpt. without the subtitle on the book but with the subtitle\ A Suspenseful, Haunting Masterpiece of Earth\&$\#$39;s Far-Distant Future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 4. New York: World Editions, 1949.

}, month = {1924}, publisher = {Merton Press}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Set 300,000 years in the future and mostly dystopian. The Amphibians are one of the species in that future. They are small, furred, sexless creatures who communicate telepathically and mostly live peacefully. And there are other species of both plants and animals that are extremely violent. The Dwellers, the dominant species, live underground. The novel is concerned with a conflict between the Amphibians and the Dwellers, and how it is settled.\ 

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