Wright, Sewell Peaslee
Entry updated 23 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1897-1970) US journalist, advertising writer, radio operator, editor and author who served in World War One and began to publish work of genre interest with "The Warning" as S P Wright in Hugo Gernsback's Radio News for February 1924. "The Experiment of Erich Weigert" (May 1926 Weird Tales) is a Horror story involving a Mad Scientist and radio-mediated artificial Telepathy. "The Forgotten Planet" (July 1930 Astounding) is an early tale of inimical aliens Aliens, opening the John Hanson sequence of variously extravagant sf adventures in Astounding, whose tenth and final story appeared in 1933. Wright then fell silent as an sf author, though his stories were reissued in various venues including Häpna!, Project Gutenberg [see Checklist below] and the eventual collection Anthology of Sci-Fi V13: The Pulp Writers: Sewell Peaslee Wright (coll 2013), which assembles all the John Hanson tales plus two others. [DRL]
Sewell Peaslee Wright
born Butler, Pennsylvania: 7 August 1897
died March 1970
collections and stories
- The Infra-Medians (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2007) [ebook: first appeared December 1931 Astounding: na/]
- The God in the Box (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [ebook: first appeared September 1931 Astounding: John Hanson: na/]
- The Terror from the Depths (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [ebook: first appeared November 1931 Astounding: John Hanson: na/]
- Priestess of the Flame (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [ebook: first appeared June 1932 Astounding: John Hanson: na/]
- The Death-Traps of FX-31 (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [ebook: first appeared March 1933 Astounding: John Hanson: na/]
- Vampires of Space (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [ebook: first appeared March 1932 Astounding: John Hanson: na/]
- Anthology of Sci-Fi V13: The Pulp Writers: Sewell Peaslee Wright (place not given, USA: Spastic Cat Press, 2013) [coll: pb/]
links
- "The Experiment of Erich Weigert" at PseudoPod
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Project Gutenberg
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