John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris wurde am 10. Juli 1903 in der Nähe von Birmingham, England, geboren und besucht im Laufe seiner Schulzeit verschiedene Internate. Nach seinem Abschluss arbeitete er unter anderem als Landwirt, Grafiker und Werbefachmann, bevor er sich ab 1931 dem Schreiben widmete. Er ist einer der wichtigsten Science-Fiction-Autoren Englands und benutzte eine Reihe von Pseudonymen, darunter auch Lucas Parkes und John Beynon. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs arbeitete er als Verschlüsselungsexperte für das Royal Corps of Signals und nahm an der Landung in der Normandie teil. Nach dem Krieg wandte er sich, inspiriert und angespornt vom Erfolg seines Bruders Vivian Beynon Harris, erneut dem Schreiben zu. 1951 landete er mit Die Triffids einen Bestseller, dem sechs weitere Romane folgten. Zahlreiche seiner Werke wurden verfilmt, darunter auch Die Triffids und Das Dorf der Verdammten. John Wyndham starb am 11.3.1969 im Alter von 65 Jahren in London.
59 Ebooks by John Wyndham
John Wyndham: Myths of Ife
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Man. The sugge …
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John Wyndham: Die Triffids
Jahrhundertelang hat der Mensch die Natur ausgebeutet – nun ist der Tag der Abrechnung gekommen … Nach einem Kometenschauer über London ist nichts mehr so, wie es einmal war: Blind und hilflos irre …
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John Wyndham: Griff nach den Sternen
Chronik der Weltraumpioniere Seit Menschengedenken locken uns die Sterne und das unendliche All – und wir konnten diesem Ruf nicht widerstehen. Also brachen die Menschen ins All auf und erweiterten S …
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John Wyndham: Ärger mit der Unsterblichkeit
Eine Waffe gegen den Tod Auf der Suche nach einem Antibiotikum hat Francis Saxover, der Chef eines Biochemie-Forschungszentrums, eine Entdeckung gemacht, die alle bisherigen Errungenschaften und Groß …
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John Wyndham: Das versteckte Volk
Die Wüste lebt! Es ist das ehrgeizigste Projekt, das je unternommen wurde: Die Verwandlung der Sahara in ein künstliches Meer. Doch niemand ahnt, dass ein Volk von Pygmäen in den riesigen Höhlensyste …
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John Wyndham: Die Reise zum Mars
Drei … Zwei … Eins … Liftoff! Im Jahre 1981 ist es soweit: Zusammen mit vier Gefährten startet der britische Raketenbauer, Multimillionär und Abenteurer Dale Curtance von Salisbury aus ins All. Das Z …
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John Wyndham: Es geschah am Tage X
Das Dorf der Verdammten In der Nacht vom 26. auf den 27. September geschieht in dem kleinen, verschlafenen Örtchen Midwich in Großbritannien etwas Unglaubliches: die Telefonleitungen funktionieren ni …
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John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids
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&r …
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John Wyndham: Midwich Cuckoos
The classic science fiction horror novel of possessed children that inspired the terrifying Village of the Damned films. In John Wyndham’s classically elegant, calm style, this novel exp …
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John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids
FROM THE CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE CHRYSTALIDS When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth’s population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight. The London …
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John Wyndham: Trouble with Lichen
FROM THE RENOWNED CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS AND THE CHRYSTALIDS’Ingenious’ Evening Standard Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare l …
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John Wyndham: Midwich Cuckoos
FROM THE CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE CHRYSTALIDS AND THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDSNow a modern reimagining starring Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley, available to watch on Sky.’Exciting, unsettling …
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John Wyndham: Kraken Wakes
‘Ingenious, horrifying’ – Guardian 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 th …
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John Wyndham: Chocky
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 pre …
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John Wyndham: Chocky
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 pre …
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John Wyndham: Chrysalids
FROM THE CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS A disturbing post-nuclear apocalypse story of genetic mutation that explores the lengths the intolerant will go to keep themselves …
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John Wyndham: Consider Her Ways
The six stories in Consider Her Ways: And Others, the second collecton of John Wyndham’s short tales, continue his exploration of the science fiction staple – what if? In the title story we are intro …
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John Wyndham: Seeds of Time
In this thrilling collection of stories, John Wyndham, author of the acclaimed classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos, conducts ten experiments along the theme of ‘I wonder what mig …
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John Wyndham: Plan for Chaos
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 chi …
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John Wyndham: Secret People
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1935, THE SECRET PEOPLE WAS JOHN WYNDHAM’S FIRST NOVEL’The Sun Bird was beginning to travel fast, close to the edge of the whirlpool. They could look right down into the hollow of …
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John Wyndham: Stowaway to Mars
‘It was a desert. A vista of reddish rocks and drifted sand, arid and hot, extending to the limits of their view. A dreary waste upon which nothing moved or grew . . .’For British pilot Dale Curtance …
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John Wyndham: Outward Urge
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 S …
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John Wyndham: The Chrysalids
The inhabitants of post-apocalypse Labrador have vague knowledge of the “Old People, ” a technologically advanced civilization they believe was destroyed when God sent “Tribulation” to the world to p …
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John Wyndham: Affair of the Heart
‘You see, every year this table is reserved on May twenty-eighth. Every year.’ This classic short story, by the author of The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cookoos (filmed as Village of the Dam …
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John Wyndham: Dumb Martian
When Duncan took Lellie for company he knew it might help preserve his sanity. But what got him wasn’t the upkeep—it was the cost! This classic short story, by the author of The Day of the Triffids a …
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John Wyndham: Spheres of Hell
Warfare is becoming increasingly a matter of scientific cleverness and power. A nation of 100, 000, 000 people, who had no arms other than shotguns would be at the mercy of an enemy many times smalle …
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John Wyndham: The Lost Machine
Psychologists—and others—are greatly concerned about the effects—possible and assured—of machines and the machine age, on human life and endeavor. But who has ever stopped to consider the possible re …
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John Wyndham: Survival
The odds were eight to one, eight men and a lone girl on the stranded spaceship—but which proved to be the stronger sex? This classic short story, by the author of The Day of the Triffids and The Mid …
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John Wyndham: The Wheel
After the ATOM BOMB—What? This classic short story, by the author of The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cookoos (filmed as Village of the Damned) originally appeared in the classic pulp magazine …
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John Wyndham: Worlds to Barter
One of the fascinations of the time traveling story lies in the endless source of speculation concerning its manifold possibilities. So many elements of time traveling stories seem to be contrary to …
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John Wyndham: The Kraken Wakes
They came from space, these alien invaders, riding ships like fireballs into the seas and oceans of the Earth. Then they emerged from the depths to wreck havoc on human civilization. This brilliant s …
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John Wyndham: The Third Vibration
Empires have risen and fallen; and behind their fates often stand the grim shadows of warlike men who used them as pawns in their ambitions. International war is today facing every large nation and w …
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John Wyndham: Chocky
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 w …
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John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham’s 1951 classic post-apocalypse novel introduced the world to triffids, walking man-eating plants, preying on humanity in a world struck blind by a cosmic disaster. Only a few sighted peo …
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John Wyndham: Technical Slip
Just as he was about to die, he received a chance to live his life over again. It was an oversight, of course—with a few complications! Das E-Book Technical Slip wird angeboten von Wildside Press und …
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John Wyndham: Trouble with Lichen
A biochemist discovers a chemical extract from an unusual strain of lichen can slow the ageing process dramatically. But when people suddenly live for hundreds of years, society must change to deal w …
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John Wyndham: The Perfect Creature
Is the human form modeled on lines which give the maximum efficiency? A creature with four arms and three legs might look monstrous to us—but when biologists learn the secret of creating artificial l …
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John Wyndham: Jizzle
A collection of short stories from the master author of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS.Giselle is a very talented monkey, although she goes by the name Jizzle. She can draw incredibl …
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John Wyndham: Wanderers of Time
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 …
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John Wyndham: Sleepers of Mars
Stories from the darkness of space, and the planets around us . . .This collection of short stories from legendary author John Wyndham takes us around the planets around Earth and the civilisations w …
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John Wyndham: The Moon Devils
The moon has been dead for billions of years. But in the time before life evolved on Earth, the moon held an advanced civilization that foresaw its doom. It saved its race through suspended animation …
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John Wyndham: Wanderers of Time
Will humanity always be the dominant species on Earth? Or will our kind disappear entirely, allowing another form of life to reign supreme? Will there be a desperate struggle, or will there be a mass …
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John Wyndham: The Venus Adventure
John Wyndham considered this story a study in “realism in interplanetary travel.” This is no ordinary interplanetary story: it is a human and gripping adventure of explorations into a new world with …
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John Wyndham: But a Kind of Ghost
He found an old chest while prowling the beach. He hoped to find gold coins or jewelry inside. What he found was completely unexpected…and far, far from welcome. …
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John Wyndham: Delphi Complete Works of John Wyndham Illustrated
The sci-fi writer John Wyndham produced innovative works examining the human struggle for survival when catastrophic natural phenomena suddenly invade a comfortable English setting. The 1951 post-apo …
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John Wyndham: Delphi Collected Works of John Wyndham Illustrated
The sci-fi writer John Wyndham produced innovative works examining the human struggle for survival when catastrophic natural phenomena suddenly invade a comfortable English setting. Wyndham’s post-ap …
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John Wyndham: Stowaway to Mars
There’s a huge prize offered for the first person to land on Mars and wealthy eccentric Dale Curtance is determined to win it. But winning is not going to be easy. There are many surprises along the …
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