1949, starring Ronald Reagan Opus 21 (1949) The Disappearance (1951) – An unexplained cosmic "blink" splits humanity along gender lines into two divergent timelines: from the men's perspective, all the women disappear and from the women's, all men vanish. The novel explores issues of gender role and sexual identity. It depicts an empowered condition for liberated women and a dystopia of an all-male world. Wylie's setting allows him to investigate the role of homosexuality in situations where no gender alternative exists. Producer George Pal was extremely interested in the story and purchased the option to it soon after publication. Because Pal wanted to emphasize its highly sexual nature and wanted to include nudity, Paramount executive Y. Frank Freeman refused to make the film. It remained in development hell as Pal repurchased the rights and took it to several studios. He continued working on it until his death in 1980. The Smuggled Atom Bomb (1951) Three to be Read (1951). Three suspense novellas from The Saturday Evening Post Tomorrow! (1954) – Nuclear war story centering on the atomic bombing of two fictional Midwest cities adjacent to each other in the mid-1950s; one has an effective Civil Defense program, the other does not. The Innocent Ambassadors (1957) They Both Were Naked (1963) Triumph (1963) – Nuclear war story involving a worst-case USA/USSR "spasm war" where both sides empty their arsenals into each other with extensive use of "dirty" bombs to maximize casualties, resulting in the main characters (in a very deep bomb shelter) being the only survivors in the entire Northern Hemisphere. An condensed version of this novel appeared in the Saturday Evening Post magazine. 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. Los Angeles: A.D. 2017 (1971) - A novelization of Wylie's "L.A. 2017", a 1971 episode of the television series The Name of the Game. The End of the Dream (1972) Short stories Seeing New York by Kiddie Car (1926) Jungle Journey (1945) The Paradise Crater (1945) Blunder (1946) An Epistle to the Thessalonians (1950) Philadelphia Phase (1951) The Answer: A Fable for Our Times (1955) Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments and Other Mysteries (Crippen & Landru, 2010) "Crunch and Des" collections The Big Ones Get Away (1940) Salt Water Daffy (1941) Fish and Tin Fish (1944)