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| John Wyndham |
(John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris) UK (1903 - 1969)
aka John Beynon, John Beynon Harris, Johnson Harris, Lucas Parkes, Wyndham Parkes
Biography
A British author who capitalized on the fashion of prevalent post-WW2
science fiction stories that destroyed the world from without, John Wyndham was privately
educated, worked in Civil Service, and was in the Army during WW2. Before and after WW2,
he had been writing short stories, but moved to novels after the war and became very
successful. Two of Wyndham's novels were made into movies, "The Day of the
Triffids" and "The Midwich Cuckoos", which was re-named
"Village of the Damned" and had a sequel, "Children of the
Damned".
The Day of the Triffids - The night the sky broke out
in mysterious green flashes, all but a few people on Earth were blinded. The world went
mad. Ordinary folk became animals, turning on one another in terror and desperation. Bill
Masen was one of a handful who struggled to preserve a shred of civilization amidst the
chaos. But chaos soon became the least of mankind's problems. Walking plants were
appearing -- plants that fed on the bodies of their human prey. The triffids had arrived,
and it was up to Bill Masen to stop them!
The Midwich Cuckoos - A nightmare tale of a quiet
English village where nothing ever happened -- until late one September night, when every
woman in town became inexplicably pregnant... Nine months later, sixty beautiful children
were born... sixty unbelievable threats to the human race!
The Chrysalids - The terrifying story of a world
paralyzed by genetic mutation. In a community where deviations are rooted out as
abominations, David's ability to communicate by "thought shapes" is a dangerous
secret. When his ability is discovered, the results are horrific.
Bibliography
Novels
- The Secret People (1935) (writing as John Beynon Harris)
- Stowaway to Mars (1935) (writing as John Beynon) aka Planet Plane
- The Day of the Triffids (1951) aka Revolt of the Triffids
- The Kraken Wakes (1953)
- Out of the Deeps (1953)
- Planet Plane (1953) aka Stowaway to Mars
- The Chrysalids (1955)
- Re-Birth (1955)
- The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
- Trouble with Lichen (1960)
- The Outward Urge (1961)
- Chocky (1968)
- Web (1979)
Collections
- Jizzle (1954)
- The Seeds of Time (1956)
- Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter (1956)
- Consider Her Ways and Others (1961)
- The Infinite Moment (1961)
- The Best of John Wyndham: 1932-1949 (1973)
- The Best of John Wyndham: 1951-1960 (1973)
- Sleepers of Mars (1973)
- Wanderers of Time (1973)
- The Man from Beyond and Other Stories (1975)
- Exiles on Asperus (1979)
Anthologies containing stories by John Wyndham
- The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
- Dragons: The Greatest Stories (1997)
- The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
- The Road to Science Fiction Volume 5: The British Way (1998)
- Vintage Science Fiction (1999)
Short Stories
- Worlds to Barter (1931)
- The Lost Machine (1932)
- The Venus Adventure (1932)
- Exiles on Asperus (1933)
- Invisible Monster (1933)
- The Puff-Ball Menace (1933)
- Spheres of Hell (1933) (writing as John Beynon Harris)
- The Third Vibrator (1933)
- The Man from Beyond (1934)
- The Man from Earth (1934)
- The Moon Devils (1934) (writing as John Beynon Harris)
- The Cathedral Crypt (1935)
- Perfect Creature (1937)
- Una (1937) aka The Perfect Creature
- The Last Lunarians (1938)
- Sleepers of Mars (1938)
- Child of Power (1939)
- Derelict of Space (1939)
- Judson's Annihilator (1939) (writing as John Beynon)
- The Trojan Beam (1939)
- Vegeance By Proxy (1940)
- Meteor (1941) (writing as John Beynon Harris)
- Phoney Meteor (1941) (writing as John Beynon)
- Wanderers of Time (1941)
- Adaptation (1949)
- Technical Slip (1949) (writing as John Beynon Harris)
- Time to Rest (1949) (writing as John Beynon)
- The Eternal Eve (1950)
- And the Walls Came Tumbling Down... (1951)
- Artist and Slave Girl (1951) (writing as John Beynon)
- No Place Like Earth (1951)
- No Place Like Home (1951) (writing as John Beynon)
- Pawley's Peepholes (1951)
- Pillar to Post (1951)
- A Present from Brunswick (1951) aka Bargain from Brunswick
- The Red Stuff (1951)
- Close Behind Him (1952)
- Dumb Martian (1952)
- Survival (1952)
- The Wheel (1952)
- Chinese Puzzle (1953)
- Chronoclasm (1953)
- Confidence Trick (1953)
- Female of the Species (1953)
- How Do I Do? (1953)
- More Spinned Against (1953)
- Reservation Deferred (1953)
- Time Out (1953) aka Time Stops Today
- Affair of the Heart (1954)
- Compassion Circuit (1954)
- Esmeralda (1954)
- Heaven Scent (1954)
- Jizzle (1954)
- Look Natural, Please! (1954)
- Opposite Number (1954)
- Perforce to Dream (1954)
- Re-Birth (1955)
- Wild Flower (1955)
- Consider Her Ways (1956)
- For All the Night%The Space Station AD 1994 (1958)
- Idiot's Delight%The Moon AD 2044 (1958)
- Space Is a Province of Brazil%Venus AD 2144 (1958)
- The Thin Gnat-Voices%Mars AD 2094 (1958)
- The Troons of Space - Mars AD 2094 (1959)
- The Troons of Space - Venus AD 2144 (1959)
- The Emptiness of Space (1960) aka The Asteroids, 2194
- A Long Spoon (1960)
- The Asteroids, 2194 (1961)
- Odd (1961)
- Oh, Where, Now, is Peggy MacRafferty? (1961)
- Random Quest (1961)
- Stitch in Time (1961)
- A Life Postponed (1968)
- Before the Triffids
