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S. Fowler Wright

Wright, Sydney Fowler

January 6, 1874 – February 25, 1965 (aged 91)

Birth place: Kings Norton, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK

43 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
March 1929 337 Short Fiction The Rat Weird Tales, March 1929
June 1929 66 Short Fiction Love in the Year 93 E. E. The Red Book Magazine, June 1929
August 1929 45 Short Fiction P.N.40—and Love Britannia and Eve, August 1929
September 1929 337 Short Fiction Automata Weird Tales, September 1929
June 1930 280|280.2 Review The World Below Amazing Stories, June 1930
1939 33 Short Fiction Whom the Rat Bites Fantasy, Number 3
April 1946 10 Serial The Island of Captain Sparrow (Complete Novel) Famous Fantastic Mysteries, April 1946
October 1946 35 Short Fiction Congo Cat Argosy, October 1946
1949 108 Review The World Below The Arkham Sampler, Autumn 1949
January 1950 106 Review The World Below The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter-Spring 1950
January 1950 97 Review The World Below Super Science Stories, January 1950
January 1950 161 Review The World Below Startling Stories, January 1950
April 1950 143 Review The World Below Astounding Science Fiction, April 1950
May 1950 95 Review The Throne of Saturn Weird Tales, May 1950
June 1950 12 Serial The Adventure of Wyndham Smith (Complete Novel) Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1950
July 1950 68 Short Fiction Original Sin Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 13
July 1950 106 Review The Throne of Saturn The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 1950
November 1950 98 Review The World Below Marvel Science Stories, November 1950
1951 Short Fiction Obviously Suicide Suspense Magazine, Spring 1951
March 1951 12|12.4 Review The Island of Captain Sparrow Weird Tales, March 1951
March 1951 30 Review The World Below Other Worlds Science Stories, March 1951
April 1951 36 Review The Island of Captain Sparrow Super Science Stories, April 1951
September 1951 133 Review The Island of Captain Sparrow Other Worlds Science Stories, September 1951
November 1951 86 Review The Island of Captain Sparrow Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, November 1951
January 1952 13 Short Fiction P.N. 40 Avon Science Fiction Reader, #3
January 1952 134 Review The Throne of Saturn Astounding Science Fiction, January 1952
June 1954 71 Review Spider's War The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1954
August 1954 95 Review Spider's War Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1954
September 1954 125 Review Spider's War Fantastic Universe, September 1954
January 1955 155 Review Spiders' War Astounding Science Fiction, January 1955
1966 29 Short Fiction Proof Magazine of Horror, Winter 1966/67
October 1976 9 Review The World Below The Science Fiction Review Monthly, October 1976
December 1976 25 Review The World Below Delap's F & SF Review, December 1976
April 1977 145 Review The World Below Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Summer 1977
July 1983 72 Short Fiction The Better Choice Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
August 1983 Review Deluge Vector 115
August 1983 Review The Island of Captain Sparrow Vector 115
August 1983 Review The World Below Vector 115
January 1997 62 Review S. Fowler Wright's Short Stories Interzone, January 1997
June 1997 55 Review S. Fowler Wright's Short Stories Interzone, June 1997
October 1998 235 Review S. Fowler Wright's Short Stories Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 1998
March 2004 20 Review Deluge The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 2004
December 2014 6 Review The World Below Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2014

70 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1925 Novel The Amphibians S. Fowler Wright
1927 Novel Deluge S. Fowler Wright
1928 Novel The Island of Captain Sparrow S. Fowler Wright
1929 Novel Dawn S. Fowler Wright
1929 Nonfiction Police and Public S. Fowler Wright
1929 Omnibus The World Below S. Fowler Wright
1930 Novel The Case of Anne Bickerton S. Fowler Wright
1931 Novel Crime & Co. S. Fowler Wright
1931 Novel Dream, or the Simian Maid S. Fowler Wright
1931 Novel Seven Thousand in Israel S. Fowler Wright
1932 Novel Beyond the Rim S. Fowler Wright
1932 Collection The New Gods Lead S. Fowler Wright
1933 Novel Power S. Fowler Wright
1934 Novel David S. Fowler Wright
1935 Novel Prelude in Prague S. Fowler Wright
1936 Novel Four Days War S. Fowler Wright
1936 Novel The War of 1938 S. Fowler Wright
1937 Novel Megiddo's Ridge S. Fowler Wright
1937 Novel The Screaming Lake S. Fowler Wright
1938 Novel The Adventure of Wyndham Smith S. Fowler Wright
1938 Novel The Hidden Tribe S. Fowler Wright
1939 Novel Ordeal of Barata S. Fowler Wright
1939 Novel The Ordeal of Barata: A Political Fantasy S. Fowler Wright
1945 Collection Justice; and, The Rat S. Fowler Wright
1945 Novel The Vengeance of Gwa S. Fowler Wright
1946 Collection The Witchfinder S. Fowler Wright
1949 Collection The Throne of Saturn S. Fowler Wright
1951 Novel The World Below S. Fowler Wright
1953 Novel The World Below S. Fowler Wright
1954 Novel Spiders' War S. Fowler Wright
1954 Novel The Dwellers S. Fowler Wright
1975 Omnibus Deluge and Dawn S. Fowler Wright
1996 Collection S. Fowler Wright's Short Stories S. Fowler Wright
2008 Novel Arresting Delia S. Fowler Wright
2008 Novel Four Callers in Razor Street S. Fowler Wright
2008 Novel The Attic Murder S. Fowler Wright
2008 Novel The Capone Caper S. Fowler Wright
2008 Novel The End of the Mildew Gang S. Fowler Wright
2008 Novel With Cause Enough? S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel Black Widow: A Classic Crime Novel S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel Dead by Saturday S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel Elfwin S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel Four Days' War S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel Murder in Bethnal Square S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel Post-Mortem Evidence S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel The Bell Street Murders S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel The Blue Room: A Novel of an Alternate Future S. Fowler Wright
2009 Nonfiction The British Colonies: No Surrender to Nazi Germany! S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel The Hanging of Constance Hillier S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel The Jordans Murder S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel The King Against Anne Bickerton S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel The Mildew Gang S. Fowler Wright
2009 Nonfiction The Police and the Public: Some Thoughts on the British System of Justice S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel The Return of the Mildew Gang S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel The Rissole Mystery S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel The Secret of the Screen S. Fowler Wright
2009 Collection The Song of Songs and Other Poems S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel The Wills of Jane Kanwhistle S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel Three Witnesses S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel Too Much for Mr. Jellipot S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel Was Murder Done? S. Fowler Wright
2009 Novel Who Murdered Reynard? S. Fowler Wright
2010 Novel Cortéz: For God and Spain S. Fowler Wright
2010 Novel David the King: An Historical Novel S. Fowler Wright
2010 Novel Inquisitive Angel S. Fowler Wright
2010 Novel The Lord's Right in Languedoc S. Fowler Wright
2010 Novel The World Below: A Novel of the Far Future S. Fowler Wright
2010 Novel Wyndham Smith: His Adventures in the 45th Century S. Fowler Wright
2011 Novel The Last Days of Pompeii S. Fowler Wright & Edward Bulwer-Lytton
2012 Nonfiction The Life of Sir Walter Scott: A Biography S. Fowler Wright

An accountant from 1895, Wright started devoting time to his literary work following his retirement. He was founder of the Empire Poetry League and was editor of Poetry from 1920 to 1932. He wrote numerous mystery and detective novels, some under the pseudonym Sydney Fowler. He completed Sir Walter Scott's The Siege of Malta.
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