Alternate Realities - Fiction, Space Exploration - Fiction, Other Science Fiction Categories
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Overview
First published in 1927, Deluge is one of the most famous of the English catastrophe novels. Beautifully written and action packed - RKO Radio Pictures even filmed this story - the novel depicts a flood so severe that it destroys modern civilization, leaving the few survivors to adapt to the rigors of the natural world. Like other English writers responding to the trauma of World War I, Sydney Fowler Wright expresses a loathing of the worst aspects of industrialization. The protagonists soon realize that civilization and technology have divorced them from the knowledge and skills necessary for survival. Released from their over-reliance on social regulation, they struggle to overcome their own brutality to develop a new sense of community. This Wesleyan edition is graced with an introduction and annotations by leading science fiction scholar Brian Stableford.Synopsis
The definitive edition of an important 20th-century disaster novel.
Publishers Weekly
The latest entry in Wesleyan's Early Classics of Science Fiction series is Sydney Fowler Wright's Deluge (1927), edited and introduced by British SF author and scholar Brian Stableford. Students of this landmark disaster novel, in which the whole world is flooded, will find here the definitive text. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Publishers Weekly
The latest entry in Wesleyan's Early Classics of Science Fiction series is Sydney Fowler Wright's Deluge (1927), edited and introduced by British SF author and scholar Brian Stableford. Students of this landmark disaster novel, in which the whole world is flooded, will find here the definitive text. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information."Stableford's edition presents a significant 20th-century text with a definitive frame of scholarship, and could serve as a linchpin for the study of British Fiction of the interwar years."
Book Details
Published
August 1, 2003
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pages
392
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780819566607