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Chocky by John Wyndham
Category: Classics
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 ...Show more
Chocky by John Wyndham
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
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 ...Show more
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Category: Classics | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. For he finds a population rendered blind and helpless by the spectacular meteor shower that filled the night sky, the evening before. But his relief is short-lived as he re ...Show more
Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham
Category: Classics
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 fiancee looks identical to the victims too - and then she disappears.
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Takes reader into the heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty percent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as abominations.
The Chrysalids (Popular Penguins) by John Wyndham
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God's creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much ...Show more
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave ...Show more
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel <i>The Day of the Triffids</i> to moderate acclaim. Nearly seventy years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by <i>The Times</i> (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.” Bill Mas ...Show more
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
The most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.'When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's populat ...Show more
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave ...Show more
The Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins by John Wyndham
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave ...Show more
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
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 at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helples ...Show more