author : John Wyndham

Books

• The Secret People. 1935
• Stowaway to Mars. 1936 == Planet Plane
• The Day of the Triffids. 1951
• The Kraken Awakes. 1953
• Jizzle. 1954
• The Chrysalids. 1955
• The Seeds of Time. 1956
• The Midwich Cuckoos. 1957
• The Outward Urge. 1959
• Consider Her Ways and others. 1961
• Trouble with Lichen. 1965
• Chocky. 1968
• The Best of John Wyndham. 1973
• Sleepers of Mars. 1973
• Wanderers of Time. 1973
• Exiles on Asperus. 1979
• Web. 1979
• Plan for Chaos. 2009

Short works

• Consider Her Ways.
  • In Best SF Five
  • In Consider Her Ways and others
• Una.
  • In Best SF Two
  • In Jizzle
• The Lost Machine. 1932
  • In The Best of John Wyndham
  • In The Coming of the Robots
• The Venus Adventure. 1932. (In Exiles on Asperus )
• Exiles on Asperus. 1933
  • In A Sense of Wonder
  • In Exiles on Asperus
• The Man from Beyond. 1934. (In The Best of John Wyndham )
• Perfect Creature. 1937. (In The Best of John Wyndham )
• The Trojan Beam. 1939. (In The Best of John Wyndham )
• Vengeance by Proxy. 1940. (In The Best of John Wyndham )
• Adaptation. 1949
  • In The Best of John Wyndham
  • In The Microcosmic God
• And the Walls Came Tumbling Down. 1951. (In The Best of John Wyndham )
• No Place Like Earth. 1951. (In Exiles on Asperus )
• Pawley's Peepholes. 1951. (In The Best of John Wyndham )
• Pawley's Peepholes. 1951. (In The Seeds of Time )
• The Red Stuff. 1951. (In The Best of John Wyndham )
• Close Behind Him. 1952
  • In An ABC of Science Fiction
  • In The Best of John Wyndham
• Dumb Martian. 1952
  • In The Best of John Wyndham
  • In The Seeds of Time
• A Present from Brunswick. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• Affair of the Heart. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• Chinese Puzzle. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• Compassion Circuit. 1954
  • In Spectrum 4
  • In The Seeds of Time
• Confidence Trick. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• Esmeralda. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• Heaven Scent. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• How Do I Do?. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• Jizzle. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• Look Natural, Please!. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• More Spinned Against. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• Perforce to Dream. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• Technical Slip. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• The Wheel. 1954. (In Jizzle )
• Chronoclasm. 1956. (In The Seeds of Time )
• Meteor. 1956. (In The Seeds of Time )
• Opposite Number. 1956. (In The Seeds of Time )
• Pillar to Post. 1956. (In The Seeds of Time )
• Survival. 1956. (In The Seeds of Time )
• Time to Rest. 1956. (In The Seeds of Time )
• Wild Flower. 1956. (In The Seeds of Time )
• Mars: A.D. 2094. 1959. (In The Outward Urge )
• The Moon: A.D. 2044. 1959. (In The Outward Urge )
• The Space Station: A.D. 1994. 1959. (In The Outward Urge )
• Venus: A.D. 2144. 1959. (In The Outward Urge )
• The Emptiness of Space. 1960. (In The Best of John Wyndham )
• The Emptiness of Space: The Asteriods A.D. 2194. 1960. (In The Outward Urge )
• A Long Spoon. 1961. (In Consider Her Ways and others )
• Odd. 1961. (In Consider Her Ways and others )
• Oh, Where, Now, is Peggy MacRafferty?. 1961. (In Consider Her Ways and others )
• Random Quest. 1961. (In Consider Her Ways and others )
• Stitch in Time. 1961. (In Consider Her Ways and others )
• Child of Power. 1973. (In Wanderers of Time )
• Derelict of Space. 1973. (In Wanderers of Time )
• Invisible Monster. 1973. (In Sleepers of Mars )
• Sleepers of Mars. 1973. (In Sleepers of Mars )
• The Last Lunarians. 1973. (In Wanderers of Time )
• The Man from Earth. 1973. (In Sleepers of Mars )
• The Puff-Ball Menace. 1973. (In Wanderers of Time )
• The Third Vibrator. 1973. (In Sleepers of Mars )
• Wanderers of Time. 1973. (In Wanderers of Time )
• Worlds to Barter. 1973. (In Sleepers of Mars )

Other information

• Village of the Damned (1995) film review

Books : reviews

John Wyndham.
Stowaway to Mars (== Planet Plane) .
Coronet. 1936

(read but not reviewed)

An international money prize was being offered to the first man to complete an interplanetary journey, and Dale Currance, the famous aircraft designer, volunteered as the British entrant. With a hand-picked crew, he blasted off from Salisbury Plain in his own spaceship, GLORIA MUNDI, destination — Mars. But once free of the Earth’s atmosphere, he discovered a stowaway on board — a woman.

Joan and her strange quest should have prepared them better for the fantastic world that waited far out in the darkness of space. But the men from Earth were from a relatively young and hopeful civilisation, while Mars was a dying planet. Its inhabitants knew they could survive in one way only — a way too abhorrent for the Earthmen to comprehend. Only Joan realised they might have a lesson to learn from the Martian race. For one day Earth would die, too…

This early novel from a classic science fiction writer shows the brilliant visionary talent that later produced THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS.

John Wyndham.
Jizzle.
1954

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Una.

• Jizzle. 1954

• Technical Slip. 1954

• A Present from Brunswick. 1954

• Chinese Puzzle. 1954

• Esmeralda. 1954

• How Do I Do?. 1954

• Affair of the Heart. 1954

• Confidence Trick. 1954

• The Wheel. 1954

• Look Natural, Please!. 1954

• Perforce to Dream. 1954

• Heaven Scent. 1954

• More Spinned Against. 1954

John Wyndham.
The Seeds of Time.
Penguin. 1956

(read but not reviewed)

Shots of the future from the author of The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham catapults the reader of these stories into a world where time barriers have ceased to exist, where there is discrimination against Martians, where not only thought transference but body transference is an everyday event. Yet so convincing are the inhabitants of this extraordinary world, that its remoteness vanishes in a second.

Contents

• Compassion Circuit. 1954

• Dumb Martian. 1952

• Chronoclasm. 1956

• Time to Rest. 1956

• Meteor. 1956

• Survival. 1956

• Pawley's Peepholes. 1951

• Opposite Number. 1956

• Pillar to Post. 1956

• Wild Flower. 1956

John Wyndham.
The Outward Urge.
1959

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• The Space Station: A.D. 1994. 1959

• The Moon: A.D. 2044. 1959

• Mars: A.D. 2094. 1959

• Venus: A.D. 2144. 1959

• The Emptiness of Space: The Asteriods A.D. 2194. 1960

John Wyndham.
Consider Her Ways and others.
1961

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Consider Her Ways.

• A Long Spoon. 1961

• Random Quest. 1961

• Odd. 1961

• Stitch in Time. 1961

• Oh, Where, Now, is Peggy MacRafferty?. 1961

John Wyndham.
The Best of John Wyndham.
1973

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Close Behind Him. 1952

• The Lost Machine. 1932

• The Man from Beyond. 1934

• 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

• The Emptiness of Space. 1960

John Wyndham.
Sleepers of Mars.
1973

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Sleepers of Mars. 1973

• Worlds to Barter. 1973

• Invisible Monster. 1973

• The Man from Earth. 1973

• The Third Vibrator. 1973

John Wyndham.
Wanderers of Time.
1973

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Wanderers of Time. 1973

• Derelict of Space. 1973

• Child of Power. 1973

• The Last Lunarians. 1973

• The Puff-Ball Menace. 1973

John Wyndham.
Exiles on Asperus.
1979

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Exiles on Asperus. 1933

• No Place Like Earth. 1951

• The Venus Adventure. 1932

John Wyndham.
Plan for Chaos.
Penguin. 2009

Written at the same time as The Day of the Triffids, the completed manuscript of Plan for Chaos was seen by only a handful of people before Wyndham abandoned it, unpublished and overshadowed by its companion‘s sudden and phenomenal success. It has remained unpublished for some forty years since Wyndham‘s death.

In a city much like 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 fiancée looks identical to the victims too – and then she disappears. As his investigations spiral beyond his control, he finds himself at the heart of a sinister plot that uses cloning to revive the Nazi vision of a worId-powerful master race…

Part detective noir, part dystopic thriller, Plan for Chaos reveals the legendary science fiction novelist grappling with some of his most urgent and personal themes.