- Author: S. Fowler Wright Author Record # 361
- Legal Name: Wright, Sydney Fowler
- Birthplace: Kings Norton, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Birthdate: 6 January 1874
- Deathdate: 25 February 1965
- Language: English
- Webpages: IMDB, sf-encyclopedia.com, sfw.org, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: Sydney Fowler, S. Fauler Rajt, Alan Seymour, Anthony Wingrave
- Note: 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 Seige of Malta.
- Author Tags: science fiction (4), lost race (2), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), genetic breeding (1), ultimate weapon (1), invention (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), fantasy (1)
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Fiction Series
- Alternate World War II
- 1
Prelude in Prague (1934)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The War of 1938 (1934)
- 2
Four Days War (1936)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Four Days' War (2009)
- 3 Megiddo's Ridge (1937)
- 1
Prelude in Prague (1934)
also appeared as:
- Amphibians
- 1
The Amphibians (1925)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The World Below (1953)
- Translation: Gli anfibi [Italian] (1981)
- 2
The World Below (1929)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Dwellers (1954)
- Translation: Il mondo sotterraneo [Italian] (1981)
- Variant: The World Below: A Novel of the Far Future (2010)
-
The World Below (1929) [O/1,2]
also appeared as:
- Translation: Il mondo degli anfibi [Italian] (1981) [O]
- 1
The Amphibians (1925)
also appeared as:
- Deluge
-
Deluge (1927)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Nowy potop [Polish] (1931)
- Dawn (1929)
- Deluge and Dawn (1975) [O]
-
Deluge (1927)
also appeared as:
- Margaret Cranleigh
- Dream, or the Simian Maid (1931)
- The Vengeance of Gwa (1935) [also as by Anthony Wingrave]
- Spiders' War (1954)
-
The Island of Captain Sparrow (1928)
also appeared as:
- Serializations:
- The Island of Captain Sparrow (Complete Novel) (1946)
- Beyond the Rim (1932)
- Power (1933)
- The Screaming Lake (1937)
-
The Adventure of Wyndham Smith (1938)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Wyndham Smith: His Adventures in the 45th Century (2009)
- Serializations:
- The Adventure of Wyndham Smith (Complete Novel) (1950)
- The Hidden Tribe (1938)
- The Ordeal of Barata: A Political Fantasy (1939)
-
The Adventure of the Blue Room (1945)
only appeared as:
- Variant: The Adventure of the Blue Room (1945) [as by Sydney Fowler]
- Variant: The Blue Room: A Novel of an Alternate Future (2009)
- Inquisitive Angel (2010)
- Scenes from the Morte d'Arthur (1919) [only as by Alan Seymour]
-
The New Gods Lead (1932)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Throne of Saturn (1949)
- Justice; and, The Rat (1945)
- The Witchfinder (1946)
- S. Fowler Wright's Short Stories (1996)
- The Song of Songs and Other Poems (2009)
- Police and Public (1929) also appeared as:
- The Life of Sir Walter Scott: A Biography (1932)
-
Should We Surrender Colonies? (1939)
only appeared as:
- Variant: The British Colonies: No Surrender to Nazi Germany! (2009)
- The Rat
-
The Rat (1929)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Die Ratte [German] (2000)
- Whom the Rat Bites (1939)
-
The Rat (1929)
also appeared as:
-
P.N. 40 (1929)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Love in the Year 93 E. E. (1929)
- Variant: P.N.40—and Love (1929)
-
Automata (1929)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Automata: I (1929)
- Variant: Automata: II (1929)
- Variant: Automata: III (1929)
- Appeal (1932)
- Brain (1932)
- Choice (1932)
- Justice (1932)
- Proof (1932)
- Rule (1932)
- This Night (1932)
- A Question of E.D.D. (1946)
- Burglar's Aid (1946)
- Carrots (1946)
-
Original Sin (1946)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Erbsünde [German] (1984)
- Status (1946)
-
The Congo Cat (1946)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Congo Cat (1946)
- The Temperature of Gehenna Sue (1946)
- The Terror of William Stickers (1946)
- The Witchfinder (1946)
- Who Else But She? (1946)
-
Obviously Suicide (1951)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Inequivocabilmente suicidio [Italian] (1965)
-
Translation: Očito samoubojstvo?Ocito samoubojstvo[Croatian] (1977)
-
Translation: Očigledno samoubistvo?Ocigledno samoubistvo[Serbian] (1989) [as by S. Fauler Rajt]
Ochigledno samoubistvo
- The Better Choice (1955)
- First Move (1963)
- Black Widow (2020)
- Some Songs of Bilitis (1958)
- Songs of the Balochistan (1958)
- The Song of Songs (1958)
- "Toward the chapel choir the warden lead," (1996)
- ? (1996)
- Dust (1996)
- The Challenge of the Grail (1996)
- The Riding of Lancelot (1996)
- The Three Quests (1996)
- Values (1996)
- Introduction (Dante's Inferno) (1928)
- Author's Note (Dawn) (1929)
- Preface (The World Below) (1929)
- Preface (David the King) (1934)
- Introduction (The Last Days of Pompeii) (1948)
-
Foreword (The Throne of Saturn) (1949)
also appeared as:
- Variant: S. Fowler Wright Foreword (1996)
- Introduction (Dante's Purgatorio) (1954)
- Compiler's Note (1958)
- Preface (The Song of Songs) (1958)
Non-Genre Titles
Fiction Series
- Inspector Cauldron
-
A Bout with the Mildew Gang (1941)
only appeared as:
- Variant: A Bout with the Mildew Gang (1941) [as by Sydney Fowler]
- Variant: The Mildew Gang (2009)
-
Second Bout with the Mildew Gang (1942)
only appeared as:
- Variant: Second Bout with the Mildew Gang (1942) [as by Sydney Fowler]
- Variant: The Return of the Mildew Gang (2009)
- The End of the Mildew Gang (1944) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
-
A Bout with the Mildew Gang (1941)
only appeared as:
- Inspector Cleveland
-
By Saturday (1931)
only appeared as:
- Variant: By Saturday (1931) [as by Sydney Fowler]
- Variant: Dead by Saturday (2009)
-
Crime & Co. (1931)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Hand-Print Mystery (1932) [as by Sydney Fowler]
- The Hanging of Constance Hillier (1931) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- Arresting Delia (1933) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
-
By Saturday (1931)
only appeared as:
- Inspector Combridge and Mr. Jellipot
- The Bell Street Murders (1931) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- The Secret of the Screen (1933) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- Post-Mortem Evidence (1936) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- The Attic Murder (1936) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- Four Callers in Razor Street (1937) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- The Jordans Murder (1938) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
-
The Murder in Bethnal Square (1938)
only appeared as:
- Variant: Murder in Bethnal Square (1938)
- Variant: The Murder in Bethnal Square (1938) [as by Sydney Fowler]
- The Wills of Jane Kanwhistle (1939) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- The Rissole Mystery (1941) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- Too Much for Mr. Jellipot (1945) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- With Cause Enough? (1954) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- Elfwin (1930)
-
The King Against Anne Bickerton (1930)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Case of Anne Bickerton (1930)
- Variant: The King Against Anne Bickerton (1930) [as by Sydney Fowler]
- Variant: Rex v. Anne Bickerton (1947) [as by Sydney Fowler]
- Seven Thousand in Israel (1931)
- The Lord's Right in Languedoc (1933)
-
David (1934)
also appeared as:
- Variant: David the King: An Historical Novel (2010)
-
Who Else But She? (1934)
only appeared as:
- Variant: Who Else But She? (1934) [as by Sydney Fowler]
- Variant: Black Widow: A Classic Crime Novel (2009)
- Three Witnesses (1935) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- Was Murder Done? (1936) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- Ordeal of Barata (1939)
-
Dinner in New York (1943)
only appeared as:
- Variant: Dinner in New York (1943) [as by Sydney Fowler]
- Variant: The Capone Caper (2008)
- Who Murdered Reynard? (1947) [also as by Sydney Fowler]
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1948) with Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Cortéz: For God and Spain (2010)
