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{{Short description|1929 novel by P. G. Wodehouse}}
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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
 | name         = Summer Lightning
 | image        = Image:FishPreferred.jpg
 | caption      = First US edition cover
 | author       = [[P. G. Wodehouse]]
 | cover_artist = 
 | country      = United Kingdom
 | language     = English
 | publisher    = [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday, Doran]] (US)<br/>[[Herbert Jenkins Ltd|Herbert Jenkins]] (UK)
 | series       =
 | genre        = [[Comic novel]]
 | release_date = 1 July 1929 (US)<br/>19 July 1929 (UK)
 | media_type   = Print (hardcover)
 | pages        =
 | preceded_by  = [[Leave it to Psmith]] (novel), [[Blandings Castle and Elsewhere]] (shorts)
 | followed_by  = [[Heavy Weather (Wodehouse novel)|Heavy Weather]]
}}

'''''Summer Lightning'''''  is a novel by [[P. G. Wodehouse]], first published in the United States on 1 July 1929 by [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday, Doran]], New York, under the title '''''Fish Preferred<!--REDIRECT-->''''', and in the United Kingdom on 19 July 1929 by [[Herbert Jenkins Ltd|Herbert Jenkins]], London.<ref name=McIl>McIlvaine (1990), pp. 56–57, A41.</ref> It was serialised in ''[[The Pall Mall Magazine]]'' (UK) between March and August 1929 and in ''[[Collier's Weekly|Collier's]]'' (US) from 6 April to 22 June 1929.

It forms part of the [[Blandings Castle]] saga, being the third full-length novel to be set there, after ''[[Something Fresh]]'' (1915) and ''[[Leave It to Psmith]]'' (1923). ''[[Heavy Weather (Wodehouse novel)|Heavy Weather]]'' (1933) forms a semi-sequel to the story, with many of the same characters involved.