Project Gutenberg 2025-06-22 Public domain in the USA. 213 Wright, S. Fowler (Sydney Fowler) 1874 1965 Wright, Sydney Fowler Wright, Fowler The world below $aLondon :$bBooks for Today Ltd, $c1929. Amphibians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Below Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "The world below" by S. Fowler Wright is a science fiction novel written in the early 20th century. It follows a contemporary narrator who agrees to test a professor’s experimental “projection” into the far future after previous volunteers vanish. In a transformed Earth of opal roads, carnivorous flora, and vast subterranean works, he encounters intelligent Amphibians and the hidden “Dwellers” who rule from below. Drawn into a high‑stakes rescue and an uneasy clash of species, he must survive alien ecologies, invisible bridges, and moral choices in a civilization long beyond human memory. The opening of the novel introduces the time‑projection premise and the narrator’s deal to go forward after hearing of Brett’s disappearance and Templeton’s daring return and second, fatal attempt. Arriving in a silent, misty night beside an opal roadway and a sheer cliff, he endures a lethal plant attack, rescues a telepathic Amphibian who dies after sending him on a mission, and learns to move carefully through a world of invisible bridges and predatory “frog‑mouths.” Captured and released by a vast subterranean Dweller, he escapes through a spiraling tunnel, crosses a perilous hot‑sand conduit alive with pink worm‑tongues, and reaches the sea. There he meets a marching column of Amphibians, learns telepathically of their ancient treaty with the Dwellers and of a broken rule that led to a comrade’s capture, and is fed and swept along as they head inland for a covert rescue that must avoid the Dwellers’ notice. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001329369 20250405070452wright 1929 GB Reading ease score: 73.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction, English PR Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: British Literature 634171 2025-07-30T07:48:22.894496 text/html 608882 2025-06-22T16:44:02 text/html 379260 2025-07-30T07:48:30.462437 application/epub+zip 389503 2025-07-30T07:48:24.213461 application/epub+zip 345626 2025-07-30T07:48:23.496476 application/epub+zip 907465 2025-07-30T07:48:35.506411 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 867363 2025-07-30T07:48:29.887427 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 607984 2025-07-30T07:48:21.619473 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 588137 2025-06-22T16:44:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13895 2025-07-30T07:48:35.671385 application/rdf+xml 15031 2025-07-30T07:48:23.749453 image/jpeg 2443 2025-07-30T07:48:23.627426 image/jpeg 489191 2025-07-30T07:48:22.951447 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia