His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957). He began writing science fiction and detective stories in the 1920s, but shifted to science fiction post-WWII, focusing on themes of disaster, invasion, and first contact. he was plugged in to the worlds subconscious fears and articulated them one by one in short, amazingly readable novels.-Jo Walton About the Author John Wyndham (1903-1969) is considered a pioneer of science fiction and horror, though he preferred to think of himself as a logical fantasist. His plots, however fantastic, were characterized by inventiveness, clarity and a profound sympathy for mankind.-The New York Times singlehandedly invented a whole pile of sub-genres of science fiction. Faced with these unfathomable and potentially unstoppable children, the question arises: What will humanity do when faced with the threat of the unknown? Review Quotes Praise for John Wyndham The best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.-Stephen King Wyndham was a true English visionary, a William Blake with a science doctorate.-David Mitchell did more than any other British writer since H. The resultant children of Midwich are shockingly, frighteningly other. A day later, the object is gone-and all the women in the village, they will come to learn, are now pregnant. I myself had a dream about a highly intelligent nonhuman baby after reading this book.-Margaret Atwood, Slate What if the women of a sleepy English village all became simultaneously pregnant, and the children, once born, possessed supernatural-and possibly alien-powers? A mysterious silver object appears in quiet, picture-perfect Midwich. a graphic metaphor for the fear of unwanted pregnancies. Book Synopsis A genre-defining tale of first contact by one of the twentieth centurys most brilliant-and neglected-science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.
About the Book Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph, a division of Penguin Random House UK, and in paperback in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 1957.
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