John Wyndham in general

The book I'm about to review 'The John Wyndham Omnibus' is,not surprisingly,a collection of three of John Wyndham's more famous novels.Stolen/inherited from my parents I have read this book cover to cover sevral times (and may have to read it again,now I've dug it out) because it's an always 'easy to read' collection of sc-fi? novels both entertaining and relevant.I know little of the author bar that he wrote mainly in the 1950's and I don't know if it's a fair comparison but I always feel him to have a similar feel and range to H.G Wells another sci-fi writer that I've always enjoyed.I do think however that sci-fi is ...  Read the complete review

It's somehow ironic that John Wyndham, known to most of us first and foremost as the author of sci-fi page-turners like "Day Of The Triffids" and "The Midwich Cuckoos", had something of a distaste for most of the sci-fi being published in the 1950s. In his introduction to "The Seeds Of Time", an anthology of his own short stories, he is almost savage in his condemnation of editors who had established a generic blueprint and who were loathe to consider material that strayed away from it, Wyndham referring to them as "minor showmen determined to keep the genre in the cliff-hanger class". "The Seeds Of Time" is ...  Read the complete review

John Wyndham was a science fiction writer who was way ahead of his time. Despite the fact that they were written forty or more years ago, his novels are still exciting and relevant to todays readers. He explored a range of ideas, regularly returning again and again to concepts such as the manipulation of time, the idea of parallel dimensions, consciousness and the power of the mind. I'd like to introduce you to my three favourite Wyndham books, two of which are novels and one a collection of short stories. **** THE CHRYSALIDS A fantastic, post apocalyptic sci fi tale about a devoutly religious community struggling to exist after a ...  Read the complete review