Education
John Wyndham studied at a number of English preparatory and boarding schools, including Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon during the First World War.
John Wyndham studied at a number of English preparatory and boarding schools, including Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon during the First World War.
John Wyndham eventually turned to writing for money in 1925, and by 1931 was selling short stories and serial fiction to American science fiction pulp magazines, most under the pen names of 'John Beynon' or 'John Beynon Harris', although he also wrote some detective stories.During the Second World War Wyndham first served as a censor in the Ministry of Information, then joined the army, serving as a Corporal cipher operator in the Royal Corps of Signals. He participated in the Normandy landings, although was not involved in the first days of the landings.He went on to write and publish six more novels under the name John Wyndham, all of which appeared in his lifetime.
Foul Play Suspected (1935) (as John Beynon)
The Secret People (1935) (as John Beynon)
Planet Plane (1936) (as John Beynon; also known as The Space Machine and Stowaway to Mars)
Novels published in his lifetime as by John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids (1951) (also known as Revolt of the Triffids)
The Kraken Wakes (1953) (published in the United States as Out of the Deeps)
The Chrysalids (1955) (published in the United States as Re-Birth)
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) (filmed twice as Village of the Damned)
The Outward Urge (1959)
Trouble with Lichen (1960)
Chocky (1968)
Posthumous novels
Web (1979)
Plan for Chaos (2009)
Short story collections
Jizzle (1954)
The Seeds of Time (1956)
Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter (1956) (features stories from the two earlier collections)
Consider Her Ways and Others (1961)
The Infinite Moment (1961) (United States edition of Consider Her Ways, with two stories dropped, two others added)
Posthumous collections
Sleepers of Mars (1973) a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Sleepers of Mars, Worlds to Barter, Invisible Monster, The Man from Earth & The Third Vibrator.
The Best of John Wyndham (1973)
Wanderers of Time (1973) a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Wanderers of Time, Derelict of Space, Child of Power, The Last Lunarians & The Puff-ball Menace (a.k.a. Spheres of Hell).
Exiles on Asperus (1979)
No Place Like Earth (2003)
Biography and criticism
"John Wyndham: No Place Like Earth", programme on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, 11.30 am, 12 November 2010
