Deluge became a best-seller and was filmed in Hollywood, which allowed him to become a full-time writer - but from what I’ve managed to read so far, Fowler Wright didn’t produce anything else of lasting interest. The ex-lawyer Martin and the valkyrie-like Claire do battle with working-class types and equally feral animals who threaten their new-found Eden. Deluge (1927), meanwhile, is an eco-catastrophe in which land masses everywhere - except the English midlands - sink under the ocean. The time-traveling protagonist is guided by an Amphibian across a Divina Commedia-like landscape of incredible horrors. The Amphibians (1924 reissued, with extra chapters, in 1929 as The World Below) is a superman story set half a million years from now the Earth’s dominant intelligent species are the giant Dwellers (who are self-destructively devoted to science) and the furry, telepathic Amphibians (who, we discover, are morally superior to twentieth-century men). British accountant-turned-author SYDNEY FOWLER WRIGHT (1874–1965) self-published two libertarian, anti-Wellsian, yet gripping and rewarding Radium Age science fiction novels - both of which owe a debt to Dante’s allegorical themes and schemes.
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