Deluge A Romance

1928. Sydney Fowler Wright is one of the few notable writers to have launched his literary career by self-publication and to have attained success by that means. His best remembered works are his scientific romances, which played an important part in the evolution of British science fiction, but he also wrote numerous crime novels and several historical novels. Deluge, which was also adapted to the screen, is an archetypal disaster story in which a geographical upheaval causes the greater part of Britain to sink beneath he sea, turning the Chilterns into an archipelago of tiny islands. The hero plays a key role in helping to restore some semblance of social order out of the violent anarchy which follows.