John Wyndham  

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John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Many of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes.

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Novels

• Foul Play Suspected (1935) (as John Beynon)
• The Secret People (1935) (as John Beynon)
• Planet Plane (1936) (as John Beynon; also known as The Space Machine and Stowaway to Mars)
• The Day of the Triffids (1951) (also known as Revolt of the Triffids)
• The Kraken Wakes (1953) (also known as Out of the Deeps)
• The Chrysalids (1955) (also known as Re-Birth)
• The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
• The Outward Urge (1959)
• Trouble with Lichen (1960)
• Chocky (1968) (made into an ITV television mini-series for children in 1985)

Posthumous novels

• Web (1979) (published by Michael Joseph in 1979 and Penguin in 1980)
• Plan for Chaos (2009) (published by the University of Liverpool Press)

Collections

• Jizzle (1954)
• The Seeds of Time (1956)
• Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter (1956) Published by Ballantine for the US market only, it features stories from Jizzle and The Seeds of Time
• Consider Her Ways and Others (1961) includes Consider Her Ways; Odd; Oh, Where, Now is Peggy MacRafferty?; Stitch in Time; Random Quest; A Long Spoon
• The Infinite Moment (1961)

Posthumous collections

• Sleepers of Mars (1973)a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Sleepers of Mars, Worlds to Barter, Invisible Monster, The Man from Earth & The Third Vibrator.
• The Best of John Wyndham (1973)
• Wanderers of Time (1973) a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Wanderers of Time, Derelict of Space, Child of Power, The Last Lunarians & The Puff-ball Menace (a.k.a. Spheres of Hell).
• Exiles on Asperus (1979)
• No Place like Earth (2003)

Biography and Criticism

• "John Wyndham: No Place Like Earth", programme on BBC Radio 4, 11.30 am, 12 November 2010