John Wyndham wrote British science fiction in which an ordinary social world is disrupted by one unsettling biological or cosmic change. The Day of the Triffids follows survivors after a mass blinding leaves society vulnerable to mobile, poisonous plants, while The Midwich Cuckoos centres on a village where every woman of childbearing age becomes pregnant after a mysterious event. The Chrysalids moves to a post-disaster society where genetic difference is treated as religious impurity, and The Kraken Wakes imagines an alien threat emerging from the oceans. Wyndham's prose is clear, restrained and idea-led rather than technically dense. His work fits classic British science fiction, apocalypse fiction and social speculation. Read more Less
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