Phillip wylie cybersecurity

Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1902-1971) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Seeing New York by Kiddie Car" (1926 Zest). By World War Two he had become notorious for his flamboyant but penetrating surveys of American mores and behaviour; he coined the term "Momism" to describe a tendency among Americans to sacralize motherhood, thus making family dynamics and morality impenetrable to reflection (see Feminism).

Of his non-sf works, he probably remains best remembered for Generation of Vipers (1942; rev 1955), where the coinage appeared.

In the sf field he perhaps is most significant – though not initially best known – for his first novel of genre interest. Gladiator (1930; rev 1949), filmed as The Gladiator (1938), tells in inflatedly Nietzschean terms the story of a young man endowed in the womb with superhuman strength and near-invulnerability by his borderline-Mad ScientistBiologist father, as he soon tel