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John Wyndham

Born

in Knowle, Warwickshire, England

July 10, 1903

Died

March 11, 1969

Genre

Science Fiction

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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.
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	The Day of the Triffids 4.01 avg rating — 118,466 ratings — published 1951 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chrysalids 3.93 avg rating — 62,739 ratings — published 1955 — 237 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Midwich Cuckoos 3.90 avg rating — 29,699 ratings — published 1957 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chocky 3.87 avg rating — 12,224 ratings — published 1968 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kraken Wakes 3.77 avg rating — 11,841 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trouble with Lichen 3.68 avg rating — 6,618 ratings — published 1960 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seeds of Time 3.81 avg rating — 2,807 ratings — published 1956 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Consider Her Ways and Others 3.76 avg rating — 1,858 ratings — published 1961 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Web 3.52 avg rating — 1,937 ratings — published 1979 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stowaway to Mars 3.23 avg rating — 1,295 ratings — published 1935 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by John Wyndham (?)

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

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“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

tags: optimism, security

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“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

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1911, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, pages 331

25 votes, 20.0%

1925, The Trial by Franz Kafka, pages 276

21 votes, 16.8%

1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, pages 291

12 votes, 9.6%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, pages 305

9 votes, 7.2%

1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages

8 votes, 6.4%

1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, pages 329

8 votes, 6.4%

1999, Girl With a Pearl Earring byTracy Chevalier, 233 pages

7 votes, 5.6%

1966, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, pages 311

7 votes, 5.6%

1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, pages 731

5 votes, 4.0%

1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, pages 220

4 votes, 3.2%

1924, The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, pages 246

4 votes, 3.2%

1974, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, pages 336

4 votes, 3.2%

1952, The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, pages 75

4 votes, 3.2%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

2 votes, 1.6%

1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, pages 198

2 votes, 1.6%

1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, pages 128

2 votes, 1.6%

1980. Aztec by Gary Jennings, pages 754

1 vote, 0.8%

1903, The Ambassadors by Henry James, pages 528

0 votes, 0.0%

125 total votes

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