Deluge

S. Fowler Wright, Sydney Fowler Wright. Wesleyan University Press, $24.95 (393pp) ISBN 978-0-8195-6660-7

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.

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