S. Fowler Wright
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Sydney Fowler Wright was a prolific British
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 editor, poet, science fiction author, writer of screenplay
Screenplay
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s, mystery fiction
Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...

 and works in other genres. He also wrote as Sydney Fowler and Anthony Wingrave.

He was born in the Kings Norton
Kings Norton
Kings Norton is an area of Birmingham, England. It is also a Birmingham City Council ward within the formal district of Northfield.-History:...

 district, and married in the Birmingham district in 1895.

Novels

  • The Amphibians (1924)
  • The Island of Captain Sparrow (1928)
  • Deluge
    Deluge (novel)
    Deluge is a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright.In the novel, a global flood destroys all civilization other than areas of the English Midlands that remain above water. It follows Martin Webster, a lawyer who loses his wife and children. His companion, Claire Arlington, is an athlete and one of the few...

    (1928)
  • Dawn (1929) [parallel and sequel to Deluge]
  • The World Below
    The World Below
    The World Below is a science fiction novel by author S. Fowler Wright. It was first published in 1929 by Collins. The novel was originally intended as a trilogy, however, the third part was never written. The first part was originally published separately as The Amphibians by Merton Press in 1924...

    (1929) [sequel to The Amphibians]
  • Dream, or the Simian Maid (1931) [first novel in the Marguerite Cranleigh Series]
  • Beyond the Rim (1932)
  • Power (1933)
  • Prelude in Prague: The War of 1938 (1934)
  • The Vengeance of Gwa (1935) [second novel in the Marguerite Cranleigh Series]
  • Four Days War (1936) [sequel to Prelude in Prague]
  • The Screaming Lake (1937)
  • Megiddo's Ridge (1937) [sequel to Four Days War]
  • The Hidden Tribe (1938)
  • The Adventure of Wyndham Smith (1938)
  • Spiders' War (1954) [third novel in the Marguerite Cranleigh Series]

Short fiction

  • "Automata: I" (1929)
  • "Automata: II" (1929)
  • "Automata: III" (1929)
  • "P.N. 40" (1929)
  • "The Rat" (1929)
  • "Automata" (1929)
  • "Brain" (1932)
  • "Choice" (1932)
  • "The Rule" (1932)
  • "Proof" (1932)
  • "Appeal" (1932)
  • "This Night" (1932)
  • "Justice" (1932)
  • "Original Sin" (1946)
  • "The Terror of William Stickers" (1946)
  • "A Question of E.D.D." (1946)
  • "The Congo Cat" (1946)
  • "The Temperature of Gehenna Sue" (1946)
  • "Carrots" (1946)
  • "Burglar's Aid" (1946)
  • "Who Else But She?" (1946)
  • "Status" (1946)
  • "The Witchfinder" (1946)
  • "Obviously Suicide" (1951)
  • "The Better Choice" (1955)

Collections

  • Scenes from the Morte d'Arthur (1919) as Alan Seymour
  • The New Gods Lead (1932)
  • The Witchfinder (1946)
  • The Throne of Saturn (1949)
  • S. Fowler Wright's Short Stories (1996)

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