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John Wyndham


Born
in Knowle, Warwickshire, England
July 10, 1903

Died
March 11, 1969

Genre
Science Fiction

Influences
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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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Average rating: 3.93 · 256,423 ratings · 16,755 reviews · 375 distinct works • Similar authors
The Day of the Triffids
4.01 avg rating — 117,132 ratings — published 1951 — 313 editions
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The Chrysalids
3.93 avg rating — 61,900 ratings — published 1955 — 130 editions
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The Midwich Cuckoos
3.90 avg rating — 29,206 ratings — published 1957 — 113 editions
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Chocky
3.87 avg rating — 11,972 ratings — published 1968 — 78 editions
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The Kraken Wakes
3.77 avg rating — 11,576 ratings — published 1953 — 126 editions
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Trouble with Lichen
3.68 avg rating — 6,519 ratings — published 1960 — 52 editions
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The Seeds of Time
3.81 avg rating — 2,754 ratings — published 1956 — 56 editions
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Consider Her Ways and Others
3.76 avg rating — 1,829 ratings — published 1961 — 26 editions
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Web
3.52 avg rating — 1,916 ratings — published 1979 — 34 editions
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Stowaway to Mars
3.23 avg rating — 1,270 ratings — published 1935 — 38 editions
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“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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April 2016 New School Classic Group Read

1927, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 209 pages
 
  32 votes, 18.1%

 
  28 votes, 15.8%

 
  18 votes, 10.2%

1961, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 346 pages
 
  17 votes, 9.6%

1969, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pages
 
  13 votes, 7.3%

 
  11 votes, 6.2%

 
  10 votes, 5.6%

 
  9 votes, 5.1%

 
  9 votes, 5.1%

1963, The Clocks by Agatha Christie, 381 pages
 
  9 votes, 5.1%

1900, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 455 pages
 
  6 votes, 3.4%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 220 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1969, them by Joyce Carol Oates, 576 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

1962, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, 256 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

 
  1 vote, 0.6%

1929, Cimarron by Edna Ferber, 400 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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