The Best of John Wyndham

The Best of John Wyndham PDF Author: John Wyndham
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ISBN: 9780722193730
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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The Best of John Wyndham

The Best of John Wyndham PDF Author: John Wyndham
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ISBN: 9780722193730
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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The Chrysalids

The Chrysalids PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795312113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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The classic postapocalyptic thriller with “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare” (The Times, London). Triffids are odd, interesting little plants that grow in everyone’s garden. Triffids are no more than mere curiosities—until an event occurs that alters human life forever. What seems to be a spectacular meteor shower turns into a bizarre, green inferno that blinds everyone and renders humankind helpless. What follows is even stranger: spores from the inferno cause the triffids to suddenly take on a life of their own. They become large, crawling vegetation, with the ability to uproot and roam about the country, attacking humans and inflicting pain and agony. William Masen somehow managed to escape being blinded in the inferno, and now after leaving the hospital, he is one of the few survivors who can see. And he may be the only one who can save his species from chaos and eventual extinction . . . With more than a million copies sold, The Day of the Triffids is a landmark of speculative fiction, and “an outstanding and entertaining novel” (Library Journal). “A thoroughly English apocalypse, it rivals H. G. Wells in conveying how the everyday invaded by the alien would feel. No wonder Stephen King admires Wyndham so much.” —Ramsey Campbell, author of The Overnight “One of my all-time favorite novels. It’s absolutely convincing, full of little telling details, and that sweet, warm sensation of horror and mystery.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of Edge of Dark Water

Chocky

Chocky PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141964723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy?

Chocky

Chocky PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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David Gore becomes concerned that his twelve-year-old son, Matthew, is too old to have an imaginary friend. His concerns deepen as Matthew becomes increasingly distressed and blames it on arguments with this unseen companion, whom he calls "Chocky". As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the friend is far from imaginary, but is an alien consciousness communicating with Matthew's mind—a fact that is of interest to shadowy government forces.

The Kraken Wakes

The Kraken Wakes PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0593450116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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An “ingenious, horrifying” (The Guardian) first contact story by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.” “Few books capture the obscure, elliptical way that threats move from the background to the foreground of reality like The Kraken Wakes. . . . Feels all too familiar in today’s age of anti-vaxxer disinformation and QAnon conspiracists.” —Alexandra Kleeman, from the Introduction What if aliens invaded and colonized Earth’s oceans rather than its land? Britain, 1953: It begins with red dots appearing across the sky and crashing to the oceans’ deeps. At first, many people believe that these aliens are interested in only what’s down below. But when the polar ice-caps begin to melt, it becomes clear that these beings are not interested in sharing the Earth and that humankind might just be on the brink of extinction. . . .

The Best of John Wyndham

The Best of John Wyndham PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780722193747
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Trouble with Lichen

Trouble with Lichen PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014192084X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo by using the lichen to inspire a feminist revolution. As each scientist wrestles with the implications and practicalities of exploiting the discovery, the world comes ever closer to learning the truth . . . Trouble With Lichen is a scintillating story of the power wielded by science in our lives and asks how much trust should we place in those we appoint to be its guardians?

The Wanderers of Time

The Wanderers of Time PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473230888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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A collection of science fiction short stories from the master author of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS. In 1941, Roy Sabre's girlfriend Betty mysteriously disappears. Ten years later he has constructed a time-machine and his first trip is to go back to find her. But his arrival is observed and his machine attacked and damaged as it departs - instead of returning to 1951, it travels to the far future where mankind has disappeared and the Earth is under the control of machines controlled by insects. Roy finds that several other time-travellers, due to damage and malfunction, have been cast forward to the same time . . . Stories included: - "Wanderers of Time" - "Derelict of Space" - "Child of Power" - "The Last Lunarians" - "The Puff-ball Menace"

Web

Web PDF Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 9781405882569
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Contemporary / British English The island of Tanakuatua seems like heaven to the forty people who go there to create a new society. But soon they start to die in a horrible way. Something strange is in the forest. Two of the group decide to fight!