Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1217. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 833. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2437. THE AMPHIBIANS is "a work comparable in its scope only to THE TIME MACHINE and THE NIGHT LAND." - Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. the first part an imaginative tour de force." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-128. the time traveling protagonist accidentally precipitates a crisis in the affairs of a race of telepathic Amphibians who coexist with the giant humanoid Dwellers. The story is "set in the far future, when humans are extinct and forgotten. A third book was planned but never written. Comprises "The Amphibians," first published in book form in 1925, and its sequel, "The World Below," first published here. A superior novel in which Wright explores human evolution based on degeneration of the race due primarily to continual destruction of past civilizations through the misuse of scientific discoveries. edition adds a preface by Wright dated "New York, January 15, 1930" that did not appear in the 1929 Collins edition. v-viii 1-344, original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black.
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