Download or read book The King Against Anne Bickerton written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Arabella Hackett is found poisoned, her sister and heir, Anne Bickerton, is accused of the crime. She's arrested and brought to trial, but the only defense she can make is to proclaim her innocence. Can anyone save Anne Bickerton from the hangman's noose?
Download or read book Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction written by Brian Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight highly-readable essays on science fiction and fantasy writers, including David Brin, Jonathan Carroll, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Robert Irwin, Graham Joyce, Michael Shea, plus a major piece, "Against the New Gods," on British SF and crime writer Sydney Fowler Wright. Complete with Bibliography and Index.
Download or read book Justice Denoted written by Terry White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Primarily a bibliography of novels, it also annotates plays, scripts for film and television, novelizations, and short-story collections about lawyers and the law. The idea behind the principal of selection is to disdain labels that reduce the variety of the legal thriller to a subgenre of mystery fiction. Novels that range from suspense thrillers through science fiction to the philosophical novel are included if justice is thematically important. It is therefore an eclectic reference source beyond a compilation of books about lawyers as protagonists. Its biographical and scholarly information about authors, major and minor, and their novels or works is traditionally encyclopedic and objective regardless of whether the work has been genre-defined, or worse—deified as a classic or denigrated as a bestseller. Many novels included are long out of print, but historically interesting for their contribution to the lineage of the courtroom drama, showing that the history of the legal thriller is one of the major branches of modern literature since the Age of Reason. The criterion of justice denoted moves beyond the fact of lawyers and courtrooms to select seminal novels like Robert Travers' Anatomy of a Murder as well as the romantic potboiler. Among the more than 2,000 works are the Perry Mason novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, John Mortimer's Rumpole series, along with a staple of fiction by major authors of the genre like John Lescroart, Lisa Scottoline, Margaret Maron, Scott Turow, and John Grisham. There are also individual works by Shakespeare, Goethe, Kafka, Camus, and Twain delineating humanity's obsession with the law as its shining prop of civilization and, alternative, béte-noire of the common individual caught up in its maw. The appendices include comments by lawyer-novelist Michael A. Kahn, a historical introduction to the legal thriller, craft notes by writers and prominent trial lawyers responding to author and lawyer questionnaires, bibliography of critical sources and articles, series characters, and the legal terminology found in courtroom dramas and novels. An essential reference tool for scholars, researchers as well as the occasional reader of legal thrillers.
Download or read book Cortez written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1518, a Spanish conquistador named Hernando Cortez set out with a handful of men to conquer the hitherto-unknown Aztec Empire. Facing armies that numbered, at times, 10 or 20 or 100 times his strength, he pushed his way into the interior, determined to establish Christianity among the Indians, and to erect a Spanish colony there. That he succeeded, even with the advantage of better armor, weapons, and cannon, is simply extraordinary. S. Fowler Wright has written one of his best novels, here published in printed form for the very first time.
Download or read book Seven Thousand in Israel written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1920s England, on the verge of the Great Depression, John Oakley owns a small manufacturing plant that has fallen on hard times. Taxes are rising, orders are dropping, and the firm is gradually heading towards bankruptcy. But his grown children--Alway, Frida, Elsie, and Nina--are clueless as to the financial situation of the family, and live their lives according to the dictates of the "fast crowd" of the time. Wright's setting and characters, partially based on events in his own life, come vividly alive on the page, as his children and grandchildren struggle with problems of life and death, religion, love, marriage and parenthood. A marvelous family saga of an era long-vanished.
Download or read book Wyndham Smith written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Wyndham Smith is transported to the 45th century, he finds himself fighting a sterile dystopia in which machines have created a sterile womb for mankind, without pain or suffering. Humanity is on the verge of deliberate racial suicide, but Wyndham and Vinetta escape the doomed city, fleeing to Sicily. There they must fight a Man Killer robot that has been programmed to eliminate the last hope of mankind. Can the two lovers defeat this implacable metal monster? Originally published under the title, The Adventure of Wyndham Smith.
Download or read book Four Days War written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis attack the West--in 1938! First their Blitzkrieg attacks and subdues Czechslovakia. Now it's England's turn, as wave after wave of German bombers devastate London and the other big cities. British spy Richard Steele has evidence of an appalling Nazi weapon, a gas that freezes everything it touches. But Steele's stuck in Germany--can he return home in time to warn Britain? The second book in a gripping trilogy.
Download or read book The Island of Captain Sparrow written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranded on an unknown island in the Pacific, Charlton Foyle must fight goat-like hominids, giant, semi-intelligent birds, degenerate pirate settlers, and the remnants of an ancient race of men with powers to foretell the future, in order to save the life and love of a beautiful French girl.
Download or read book Megiddo s Ridge written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938 the Nazis launch a sudden attack on Czechoslovakia, which they quickly subdue, and also on England, which proves to be a much harder morsel to digest. As the allies from the West gather their forces in Palestine for a final climactic battle at Megiddo's Ridge, British spy Richard Steele, who has infiltrated the highest levels of the German command, uncovers a great secret. But revealing it could cost him his position--and his life! The third book in an Alternate History of World War II.
Download or read book Red Ike written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1883 Cumberland, England, Red Ike and his friend Will Moffatt must persevere through great difficulties and hardships to build a life for themselves and for the women they love. A classic tale, also published as Under the Brutchstone.
Download or read book Inquisitive Angel written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an inquisitive angel named Elya comes to Earth, she assumes the form of an extraordinarily beautiful young woman, and promptly proceeds to poke holes in the foundation of human society. Why, she wants to know, are we so irrational, so willing to lie to each other, and have so many ineffective laws on the books? When she assumes the form of a well-known judge, she overturns every legal precedent with her energy, her questions, and her humorous unraveling of the legal profession. Great fun by a master of fantasy satire. First publication in book form.
Download or read book Power written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Maitland, a young British politician, suddenly finds himself owning a super-weapon that makes him temporary Dictator of England. He wants to reform government and abolish all the unnecessary rules and regulations that have accumulated during the last century. Opposing him are the leaders of industry and the wealthy, entrenched upper classes. Can Stanley's POWER overcome the traditions of centuries?
Download or read book Prelude in Prague written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935 S. Fowler Wright penned the first volume of an SF trilogy based on the notion--then considered absurd--that Adolf Hitler was an evil, empire-seeking megalomaniac bent on conquering the world. First Hitler rearms Germany, then forces Europe to accept the German occupation of Austria, and finally gives Czechoslovakia an ultimatum: accept German rule--or be conquered! The first book of a thrilling alternate history of World War II.
Download or read book The Lord s Right in Languedoc written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval France, Count Gismond becomes locked in an escalating war of nerves between himself, the nearby town of Faucon-bas, and a mercenary captain named Halt Redwood. Gismond needs money to finance his lavish lifestyle, and the townsfolk refuse to give it. Both the Count and the town seek outside help in their war for dominance, with Redwood caught squarely in the middle. Another fascinating tale of intrigue and politics by a master writer.
Download or read book Sermons in Science Fiction written by Mary Stanley Weinkauf and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the British science fiction and mystery author S. Fowler Wright, analyzing the author's strengths and weaknesses and discussing his varied fictional output.
Download or read book Was Murder Done a Classic Crime Novel written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime writer Alfred Culbertson concocts a scheme to increase his royalties: he'll fake the murder of his cousin, Thomas Birchell (who's also hard-up for cash), and together they'll reap a bonanza. When Tom takes a dive off a nearby cliff, supposedly to reappear at a later date, all seems to be well -- until a mutilated corpse wrapped in Tom's clothes washes ashore. Is Tom really alive? Or will Alfred face the hangman himself when he's unable to answer the question: WAS MURDER DONE?
Download or read book Deluge written by Sydney Fowler Wright and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 flood, in his view, becomes an opportunity for the remaking of society. 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. For over 75 years readers have praised this book for its style and wisdom, and debated the meaning of its controversial ending. This Wesleyan edition is graced with an excellent introduction and annotations by leading science fiction scholar Brian Stableford.
