John Wyndham Books in Order

novel · 1935

'The Sun Bird was beginning to travel fast, close to the edge of the whirlpool. They could look right down into the hollow of spinning water' While flying over Africa's New Sea, a water project in the heart of the Sahara desert, Mark…

novel · 1935

Newly widowed Phyllida returns from India to visit her absent-minded father, Professor Woodbridge, only to find the house locked up and deserted. Phyllida learns that he left town four months ago having dismissed the staff, telling them…

novel · 1936

novel · 1951

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded…

novel · 1953

It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . .For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what…

novel · 1955

Genetic mutation has devastated the world and a bleak, primitive society has emerged from its ruins ; a society which punishes any deviation from rigid norms. Ten-year-old David is having strange dreams about a mysterious city. But in his…

novel · 1957

n the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed - except that all the women in the village are discovered…

fix-up-novel · 1959

The 'outward urge' was a factor in the Troon inheritance. Successive generations of Troons, looking up at the stars, heard the siren voices that called them out into Space. And, as the frontiers of Space receded, there was usually one…

novel · 1960

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,…

novel · 1968

In Chocky, pioneering science-fiction master John Wyndham confronts an enigma as strange as anything found in his classic works The Day of the Triffids or The Chrysalids--the mind of a child. It's not terribly unusual for a boy to have an…

novel · 1979

A millionaire English lord dreams of founding a utopian community on a remote Pacific island.... Among the forty-odd men and women selected for the project are a pestologist named Camilla and the narrator. Within hours of the group's…

novel · 2009

In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancée looks…

short-story-collection · 1954

This collection includes the following stories: "Jizzle" "Esmerelda" "Heaven Scent" "Look Natural, Please" "Reservation Deferred" "Affair of the Heart"

short-story-collection · 1956

For the ten short stories collected here, John Wyndham turns his imagination to, among other subjects, body-snatching, time-travel and mind-travel, and the the tricky business of interplanetary colonization.

short-story-collection · 1961

A collection of short stories including: Consider Her Ways (1956) Odd (1961) Oh, Where, Now, Is Peggy MacRafferty? (1961) Stitch in Time (1961) Random Quest (1961) A Long Spoon (1960) Consider Her Ways: Jane Waterleigh has no memory of…

short-story-collection · 1973

Sleepers of Mars is a collection of five early stories (one short story and four novelettes/novellas) by British writer John Wyndham, as by John Beynon Harris, published after his death, in 1973 by Coronet Books. Contents: "Sleepers of…

short-story-collection · 1973

short-story-collection · 1973

Five early stories by John Wyndham, originally published in the 1930's under the name John Beynon Harris Wanderers of Time Derelict of Space Child of Power The Last Lunarians The Puff-ball Menace.

short-story-collection · 1979

"Exiles on Asperus" (novelette, as by John Beynon Harris), "No Place Like Earth" (novelette), "The Venus Adventure" (novella)

short-story-collection · 2003

short-story-collection · 2024

poetry-chapbook · 1953