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Philip G. Wylie

Philip Gordon Wylie (May 12, 1902 - October 25, 1971) was a U.S. author.

There is no advance without strife. -- Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer After Worlds Collide (1933)
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it! -- Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer When Worlds Collide (1932)

Philip Gordon Wylie was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1902, the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when he was five years old. His family moved to Montclair, New Jersey and he later attended Princeton University during 1920-1923. A writer of fiction and nonfiction, his output included hundreds of short stories, articles, serials, syndicated newspaper columns, novels, and works of social criticism. He also wrote screenplays while in Hollywood, was an editor for Farrar & Rinehart, served on the Dade County, Florida Defense Council, was a director of the Lerner Marine Laboratory, and at one time was a special advisor to the chairman of the Joint Committee for Atomic Energy. Most of his major writings contain critical, though often philosophical, views on man and society as a result of his studies and interest in psychology, biology, ethnology, and physics. He died in 1971. While today he would be considered a techno-thriller writer, similar to Tom Clancy, two of his earliest books exercised great influence in twentieth-century science fiction pulp magazines and comicbooks:
- "Gladiator" (1930) inspired the comic-book character "Superman".
- "The Savage Gentleman" (1932) inspired the pulp-fiction and radio character "Doc Savage". He also co-wrote When Worlds Collide with Edwin Balmer. It was adapted into a film by producer George Pal. Writing as he did when we had less potent current technology available to us, he applied engineering principles and the scientific method quite broadly in his work. His novel the Disappearance, written in 1951, is about what happens when everyone wakes up one day and finds that anyone of the opposite sex is missing (all the men have to get along without women, and vice versa). Wylie delves into double standard between men and women that existed prior the woman's movement of the 70's; exploring the nature of the relationship between men and women and the issues of women's rights and homosexuality. Many people at the time considered it as relevant to science fiction as his Experiment in Crime. The novel "The Paradise Crater" written in 1945 was cause for his house arrest by the federal government, it described a post-WWII 1965 Nazi attempt to rule the world with atomic power. In non-fantasy related subjects: his book of essays, Generation of Vipers, was a best-seller during the 1940s and inspired the term "Momism". Some people have accused Generation of Vipers of being misogynistic. The Disappearance shows his thinking on the subject is very complex. (His only child, Karen Wylie Pryor, is the author of a classic book for breastfeeding mothers, Nursing Your Baby. She has commented that her father was far from a misogynist.) His novel of manners Finnley Wren was also highly regarded in its time. He wrote over 100 "Crunch and Des" stories for the Saturday Evening Post, about the adventures of Captain Crunch Adams, master of the charter boat Poseidon, (there was even a brief television series). His "Crunch and Des" stories, were an apparent influence on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee books have a following today. He also wrote as Leatrice Homesley.

Bibliography

Series:

Name of the Game Los Angeles: A.D. 2017 (1971)

Novels:

Gladiator (1930) - one of the main inspirations for Superman The Murderer Invisible (1931) The Savage Gentleman (1932) When Worlds Collide (1933) (with Edwin Balmer) After Worlds Collide (1934) (with Edwin Balmer) The Golden Hoard (1934) Night Unto Night (1944) The Paradise Crater (1945) The Disappearance (1951) The Smuggled Atom Bomb (1951) Tomorrow! (1954) The Answer (1955) Triumph (1963) The Spy Who Spoke Porpoise (1969) - the President of the United States learns that there is a category of CIA files, code named Zed, to which he is not allowed access. The End of a Dream (1972) - forsees a dark future where America slides into an ecological catastrophe

Short Stories

Seeing New York by Kiddie Car (1926) Jungle Journey (1945) Blunder (1946) An Epistle to the Thessalonians (1950) Philadelphia Phase (1951) The Answer (1955)

Non-Fiction

Generation of Vipers (1942)

Essays/Articles

Predictions: 2001 A.D. (1956)

External Links:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Philip_Wylie.htm Fantastic Fiction's bibliography of his works. http://www.afn.org/~gofc/wylie.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010725224738/http://www.anrecs.msu.edu/extension/sep98e3.htm http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/momism.html http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/wylie/ http://www.sfsite.com/gary/wyli01.htm http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=166217&mod=bio Wylie, Philip Gordon Wylie, Philip Gordon Wylie, Philip Gordon Wylie, Philip Gordon Wylie, Philip Gordon

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