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Chocky by John Wyndham
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex ...Show more
Consider Her Ways by John Wyndham, John Wyndham
Category: Science Fiction
The six stories in Consider Her Ways: And Others, the second collection of John Wyndham's short tales, continue his exploration of the science fiction staple - what if? In the title story we are introduced to a world where all the men have been killed by a virus and women continue to survive in a strict ...Show more
Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham
Category: Science Fiction
In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancee looks identical to the victims too - and then she disappears.
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Category: Classic Fiction
Takes reader into the heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty percent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as abominations.
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel <i>The Day of the Triffids</i> to moderate acclaim. Nearly seventy years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by <i>The Times</i> (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.” Bill Mas ...Show more
The Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins by John Wyndham
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave ...Show more
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Category: Science Fiction
John Wyndham's 1957 book The Midwich Cuckoos is better known by the more sensational title of its two film adaptations, Village of the Damned. The story begins with Richard and Janet Gayford who have spent the night of September 26 in London, returning to their home in Midwich the following day. Then, ...Show more
The Secret People by John Wyndham, John Wyndham
Category: Science Fiction
'The Sun Bird was beginning to travel fast, close to the edge of the whirlpool. They could look right down into the hollow of spinning water' While flying over Africa's New Sea, a water project in the heart of the Sahara desert, Mark Sunnet's rocket plane crashes and is sucked through a hole in the dese ...Show more
The Seeds of Time: Classic Science Fiction by John Wyndham, John Wyndham
Category: Science Fiction
In this thrilling collection of stories, John Wyndham, author of the acclaimed classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos, conducts ten experiments along the theme of 'I wonder what might happen if...' There's the story of the meteor, which holds much more than meets the eye. In Chronoclas ...Show more
Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham
Category: Science Fiction
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn th ...Show more
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