John Wyndham Livres

Lorsque Bill Masen se réveille dans son lit d'hôpital, après une semaine passée les yeux bandés, il pense avoir manqué le spectacle du siècle : une pluie d'éclats de comète qui a illuminé le ciel d'éclairs verdâtres. Il ne le sait pas encore mais son destin et celui de la planète entière viennent de basculer. En effet, si les bandages de Bill l'ont sauvé d'une cécité définitive, la quasi-totalité de l'humanité est devenue aveugle. De petits groupes tentent de s'organiser pour survivre mais c'est compter sans les triffides, ces mystérieuses plantes capables de se déplacer et qui semble bien décidées à profiter de la faiblesse des humains survivants pour les anéantir... Chef-d'œuvre de la science-fiction post-apocalyptique, Le jour des triffides a été adapté au cinéma sous le titre La révolte des triffides.

Frighteningly real, completely believable, here are six stories of people who find themselves suddenly living in another year of their own lives. With the casual ease of a master writer, John Wyndham gives flesh and substance to that strange moment when the bottom suddenly drops out from under us and we meet ourselves in the future or the past—ourselves as we will be, or might have been.Includes:Consider Her WaysOddHow Do I DoStitch in TimeRandom QuestTime Out

An introduction and five early stories by this classic SF writer originally published in the 1930's under the name John Beynon Harris. The title story plus Derelict of Space, Child of Power, The Last Lunarians and The Puff-ball Menace.

David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realize that his own son, his niece Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants. But as David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders. Soon they face a choice- wait for eventual discovery or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands ... The Chrysalids is a post-nuclear story of genetic mutation in a devastated world, which tells of the lengths the intolerant will go to to keep themselves pure.

The study of men and masculinities incorporates some of the key debates in the social sciences today, particularly within cultural and media studies, and gender studies. This book explores the socio-historical and cultural formation, enactment and representation of masculinities in a range of sites. schovat popis

Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky - the person who lived in his head.

For the ten short stories collected here, John Wyndham turns his imagination to, among other subjects, body-snatching, time-travel and mind-travel, and the the tricky business of interplanetary colonization.

The children of Midwich are all blond, golden-eyed, grow up too fast, and were all conceived on a night when a silver object appeared and the Midwich inhabitants fell unconscious. Now the children are exhibiting frightening abilities that bring them into conflict with the other villagers.

The future as an Amazonian ant's-nest, a single-sex totalitarian nightmare...the curious consequences of an out-of-body experience...how Hollywood turned an Irish Rose into a plastic bloom...a scientific experiment that changes the course of history - or merely confirms it...the search for a love that is not just lost, but has never ever been...a Satanic salesman's struggles with a quick-witted mortal...

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fireballs race through the sky above the deepest trenches of the oceans. Something is about to show itself, something terrible and alien, a force capable of causing global catastrophe.