John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (/ˈwɪndəm/; 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), the latter filmed twice as Village of the Damned.
Quotes
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
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- I wonder if a sillier and more ignorant catachresis than "Mother Nature" was ever perpetrated? It is because Nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation. One thinks of wild animals as savage, but the fiercest of them begins to look almost domesticated when one considers the viciousness required of a survivor in the sea; as for the insects, their lives are sustained only by intricate processes of fantastic horror. There is no conception more fallacious than the sense of cosiness implied by 'Mother Nature.' Each species must strive to survive, and that will do, by every means in its power, however foul—unless the instinct to survive is weakened by conflict with another instinct.
- p. 97
External links
- The John Wyndham Archive, The University of Liverpool, retrieved on 23 December 2015.
- "John Wyndham", The Guardian (London), 22 July 2008.
- Priest, Christopher, Portrait of Wyndham and Wells, UK: Tiscali
- Ketterer, "'Vivisection': Schoolboy 'John Wyndham's' First Publication?", SFS (Depauw) 78.
- John Wyndham on the Nature of Evil in His Novels, On writers, UK: BBC, 1960 (somehow restricted to viewing only in UK)
- John Wyndham at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- "John Wyndham first editions", Book seller world.
- Wyndham Web: The Internet's First Dedicated John Wyndham Site.
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