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Indeholder "Before the Triffids", "Wanderers of Time", "Derelict of Space", "Child of Power", "The Last Lunarians", "The Puff-ball Menace".
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (1977), Paperback, 160 pages
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LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini
This is sort of bog-standard mid-20th century sci-fi, with that mix of gee-whiz positivism and total blinkered of-its-timeness and little of Wyndham's later radical imaginativeness, but it's still quite fun because it was written in the thirties by a Brit, and that means that as opposed to all the
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smug can-do garbage that you get in, like, Asimov and Heinlein, here there are all the classic late-imperial tendencies: the Great Game, foreigners insidiously corrupting the green and pleasant isle, Nazis. Only this time the Great Game is humans vs. ants, the foreigners are corrupting by tricking English gardeners into growing huge puffball fungi that bounce around and take out humans with their EVIL SPORES, and the Nazis are in space. Rather! Show Less
LibraryThing member auntmarge64
Five longish short stories from the 1930s by the author of [Day of the Triffids] when he was just starting to get published and still writing under various other names. Included are Wanderers of Time, Derelict of Space, Child of Power, The Last Lunerians, and The Puff Ball Menace. These are minor
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Wyndham, recommended for those who want to read all of his work or read early works which feed into his masterpieces ([Day of the Triffids] and [Chrysalids]). Show Less
LibraryThing member hadden
Excellent writing, as usual from John Wyndham. Although dated (some stories pre-date WWII, they can also be scarily current- an attempt by Afghan zealots to declare biological warfare against England, for exapmle. This is a good one, and a good read.
LibraryThing member StephenBarkley
Golden Age science fiction science fiction is fascinating. Imagine the challenge of writing about space travel when no human had yet escaped our planet's atmosphere!
In "Derelict of Space," one of five short stories in Wanderers of Time, Wyndham describes just what it's like to match velocity and
In "Child of Power" and "The Puff-ball Menace," Wyndham first writes in short-story form about the ideas which would form his full length novels, Chocky and The Day of the Triffids. The title story, "Wanderers of Time," takes cues from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine in portraying a world no longer governed by homo sapiens.
Like much Golden Age science fiction, Wyndham doesn't develop his characters (although he does attempt a secondary love story in "Wanderers of Time"). What these stories lack in character development, they repay in nineteen-thirties novelty.
In "Derelict of Space," one of five short stories in Wanderers of Time, Wyndham describes just what it's like to match velocity and
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trajectory in an atmosphere-free environment. You can forgive Wyndham for imagining an almost-breathable oxygen level in the bottom of some of the moon's craters ("The Last Lunarians").In "Child of Power" and "The Puff-ball Menace," Wyndham first writes in short-story form about the ideas which would form his full length novels, Chocky and The Day of the Triffids. The title story, "Wanderers of Time," takes cues from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine in portraying a world no longer governed by homo sapiens.
Like much Golden Age science fiction, Wyndham doesn't develop his characters (although he does attempt a secondary love story in "Wanderers of Time"). What these stories lack in character development, they repay in nineteen-thirties novelty.
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LibraryThing member ikeman100
This is a collection of John Wyndham short stories written under the pen name of John Beynon. These stories and others were written in the 1930s and 1940s and some were sold to the giant American pulp magazine market. They were perfect for the early SF pulps. It wasn't till after WWII that there
Wyndman was older and was publishing stories a decade ahead of the Classic SF masters like Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, and Pohl. He was more a contemporary of Ray Cummings and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
I really enjoyed these. They were fun and interesting. I like some of them better then some of his famous novels.
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were similar SF pulp magazines in Wyndham's England. Wyndman was older and was publishing stories a decade ahead of the Classic SF masters like Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, and Pohl. He was more a contemporary of Ray Cummings and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
I really enjoyed these. They were fun and interesting. I like some of them better then some of his famous novels.
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English
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160 p.; 17.2 cm
ISBN
0340173068 / 9780340173060
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