John Wyndham
Born
in Knowle, Warwickshire, England
July 10, 1903
Died
March 11, 1969
Genre
Influences
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The Day of the Triffids
293 editions
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published
1951
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The Chrysalids
93 editions
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published
1955
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The Midwich Cuckoos
147 editions
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published
1957
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Chocky
68 editions
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published
1968
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The Kraken Wakes
120 editions
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published
1953
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Trouble with Lichen
47 editions
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published
1960
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The Seeds of Time
52 editions
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published
1956
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Consider Her Ways and Others
22 editions
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published
1961
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Web
31 editions
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published
1979
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Stowaway to Mars
35 editions
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published
1935
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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.”
― The Day of the Triffids
― The Day of the Triffids
“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.”
― The Day of the Triffids
― The Day of the Triffids
“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
― The Day of the Triffids
― The Day of the Triffids
Polls
What book would you like to read in November to discuss in December? [Please vote only if you will return for the discussion, to be fair to others.] *As always I recommend if any look good to you, go ahead and put them on hold at the library if available.*
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
1977, 200 pages, 3.93 stars
$2.99 Kindle, cheap used, probably at library
1977, 200 pages, 3.93 stars
$2.99 Kindle, cheap used, probably at library
"A world paralysed by genetic mutation
John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations."
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Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
2016, 304 pages, 3.47 stars
$9.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library
2016, 304 pages, 3.47 stars
$9.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library
"In the spirit of John Carpenter's The Thing and Jacob's Ladder comes a terrifying, icebound thriller where nothing is quite what it seems.
Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot is the only person unaffected by the strange force plaguing the ship and her crew, which does little to ease their growing distrust of him.
Dismissing Noah's warnings of worsening conditions, the captain of the ship presses on until the sea freezes into ice and they can go no farther. When the men are ordered overboard in an attempt to break the ship free by hand, the fog clears, revealing a faint shape in the distance that may or may not be their destination. Noah leads the last of the able-bodied crew on a journey across the ice and into an uncertain future where they must fight for their lives against the elements, the ghosts of the past and, ultimately, themselves."
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The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
2013, 457 pages, 4.05 stars
$9.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library
2013, 457 pages, 4.05 stars
$9.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library
"After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up."
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Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper
1997, 480 pages, 3.91 stars
$7.99 Kindle, cheap used, probably at library
1997, 480 pages, 3.91 stars
$7.99 Kindle, cheap used, probably at library
"A wave of fundamentalism is sweeping across the globe as the millennium approaches, and a power-hungry presidential candidate sees his ticket to success in making an example out of a teenage girl who abandoned her infant in a Dumpster. Taking the girl's case is Carolyn Crespin, a former attorney, who left her job for a quiet family life. Now she must call upon five friends from college, who took a vow to always stand together. But their success might depend on the assistance of Sophy, the enigmatic sixth friend, whom they all believed dead."
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• A Gift Upon the Shore by M.K. Wren
2000, 388 pages, 3.88 stars
$8.69 Kindle, cheap used, at library
2000, 388 pages, 3.88 stars
$8.69 Kindle, cheap used, at library
"In the Pacific Northwest of the near future, the golden age has ended in apocalypse. Nuclear war has unleased firestorms and the killing cold of nuclear winter. Earthquakes and tidal waves have ravaged the West Coast of America. Desperate violent looters comb the devastated land. And a horrifying pandemic lays waste to the remaining human population. But one of the few survivors, Mary Hope, is determined to see that some spark of culture survives. Together with her beloved friend Rachel, she sets out to preserve the precious knowledge of the past by saving every book she can in what may very well be the last library—the only record of a world that has perished. But Mary and Rachel are not alone. They are forced to share their small subsistence farm, Amarna, with the Flock, a small band of survivors with fanatical beliefs. And one of those beliefs is that books are blasphemous and should be destroyed."
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