The Best of John Wyndham
By John Wyndham
1973
First Published
3.97
Average Rating
283
Number of Pages
comprising: The Lost Machine (1932) The Man from Beyond (1934) The Perfect Creature (1937) The Trojan Beam (1939) Vengeance by Proxy (1940) Adaptation (1949) Pawley's Peepholes (1951) The Red Stuff (1951) And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (1951) Dumb Martian (1952) Close Behind Him (1952) The Emptiness of Space (1960)
Avg Rating
3.97
Number of Ratings
114
5 STARS
34%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
26%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
John Wyndham
Author · 30 books
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was the son of a barrister. After trying a number of careers, including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, he started writing short stories in 1925. After serving in the civil Service and the Army during the war, he went back to writing. Adopting the name John Wyndham, he started writing a form of science fiction that he called 'logical fantasy'. As well as The Day of the Triffids, he wrote The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned) and The Seeds of Time.
