The Amphibians - A Romance of 50,000 Years Hence by S. Fowler Wright

The second volume, The Vengeance of Gwa (1935) as by Anthony Wingrave, was ultimately published shorn of any connecting material and Spiders' War (1954), which carries the conflict between the primitive and the civilized into the Far Future, did not appear until much later. A third series, the Margaret Cranleigh trilogy begins with Dream, or The Simian Maid (1931), which carries Wright's overriding philosophical arguments to further extremes in telling the story of a woman whose consciousness is transported back to a lost prehistory, where incarnated as an evolved primate she participates in a battle for survival against rat-like predators. Wright's second series, the Deluge sequence comprising Deluge (1927) and Dawn (1929), begins with a disaster in which most of England sinks beneath the sea. It was meant to be the first part of the Amphibians trilogy, but part three was never written and the continuation was rather synoptic. Wright also founded Fowler Wright Books Ltd., through which he also initially self-published some early work.īrian Stableford has argued strongly that Wright's science fiction makes him one of the central twentieth-century contributors to the Scientific Romance the first demonstration of this is his first full-length tale, The Amphibians: A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence. He also edited many anthologies for the League's Merton Press, publishing some early work by Olaf Stapledon. He also wrote as Sydney Fowler and Anthony Wingrave.Įmployed as an accountant until middle-age, in 1917 he was a founder of the Empire Poetry League and edited until 1932 the League's journal Poetry, which serialized his translations of Dante Alighieri's Inferno and Purgatorio. Sydney Fowler Wright (6 January 1874-25 February 1965) was a British editor, poet, science fiction author, writer of screenplays, mystery fiction and works in other genres, as well as an accountant and a conservative political activist.

The Amphibians - A Romance of 50,000 Years Hence by S. Fowler Wright