John Wyndham

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris is a British writer of Science-fiction , born in 1903 and deceased in March 1969.

Biographical note

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was born the July 10th 1903 in the village from Knowle, a few kilometres from Birmingham, in England. His/her father, George Bennon Harris worked as lawyer and his/her mother, Gertrude Parkes, were the girl of a rich person quincailler. The family lives in Edgbaston until in 1911, date on which his/her parents divorce. John Wyndham and his brother, the future writer Vivian Beynon Harris, move with their mother in Edgbaston, then, starting from 1915, place in hotels. John Wyndham attends a great number of British schools, of which the Blundell' S School in the Devon during the First World War. Its longer schooling will be done with the Bedales School (1918 - 1921) of Steep in the Hampshire. In November 1919, it publishes its first account of Science-fiction entitled Vivisection in The Bee , the newspaper of the school.

After having left the school, John Wyndham made of the agricultural studies during some time, thinks of studying at the University of Oxford, then exerts various trades to earn his living, while remaining depend on the financial aid which its family grants to him. He starts to write Gothic accounts in 1925, but without success. He continues to try his chance in various ways like the right, the commercet publicity. In 1929, it discovers the American magazine Amazing Stories which gives him desire for writing in the kind of the science fiction and to propose its texts with various periodicals. Its first success is Worlds to Barter , published in the review Wonder Stories in 1931. During the years 1930, he writes many news intended for the American periodicals, as well of the police stories as of the science fiction.

Between 1940 and 1943, John Wyndham works officially for the British government on the system of censure in time of war. He enters the army then and is used as corporal of the operations as figuring in the Royal Body off Signals and takes part in the Bataille of Normandy.

Inspired by the success of his/her brother (who published four news before even as John Wyndham did not have a name) and modified his style for its novel entitled the Day of Triffides (title original: The Day off the Triffids ). The novel was an enormous success and contributed to establish the reputation of John Wyndham as author of Science-fiction. In 1963, John Wyndham marries Grace Wilson which he has known for more than twenty years and lives not far from Petersfield , in the Hampshire, just beside the Bedales School .

Works

Novels

the Day of Triffides (also entitled Triffides or the Revolt of Triffides according to the edition) (1951, The Day off the Triffids )
the Danger comes from the sea (1953, The Kraken wakes)
Transformed the (1955, Re-Birth) (in a later edition, this novel was réintitulé the Chrysales - The Chrysalids )
the Reign of the ants (1956, Consider her ways)
the Village of damnés the ( Village off the damned ) (1957), novel in the beginning entitled Cuckoos of Midwich ( The Midwich Cuckoos ) and renamed according to the title of the two films which of it were drawn in 1960 and 1995
the Grass with living (1960, Trouble with Lichen)
Choky (1968, Choky)

Collections, anthologies, slow train

time broken (1956, Seeds off time)
the lost machine (1973, The best off John Windham)
chrysales/Choky (1976)
the gold book: John WYNDHAM (1987) (anthologist DUVIC Patrice)

News

barter of the worlds (1931, Worlds to barter)
the lost machine (1932, The lost machine)
Operation Venus (1932, Come adventure)
the invisible monster (1933, Invisible monster)
the yellow peril (1933, The puff ball threatens)
the survivor (1934, The man from beyond)
perfection even (1937, Perfect creature)
the perfect creature (1937, The perfect creature)
Météore (1941, Phoney meteor)
Adaptation (1949, Adaptation)
guenon (1949, Jizzle)
the time of the rest (1949, Time to rest)
eternal Eve (1950, The eternal Eve)
walls of Jericho (1951, And the walls cam tumbling down)
Indiscreet pastimes of Pawley (1951, Pawley' S peepholes)
glasses of Pawley (1951, Pawley' S peepholes)
Tourists of future times (1951, Pawley' S peepholes)
Boomerang (1951, Pillar to post)
De Caïphe with Pilate (1951, Pillar to post)
Voyage in the centuries (1951, Pillar to post)
Red peril (1951, The red stuff)
Stupid Martians (1952, Dumb Martian)
Survival (1952, Survival)
the wheel (1952, The wheel)
Chinese Headache (1953, Chinese puzzle/has stray from Cathay)
Breach of trust (1953, Confidence trick)
Chronoclasme (1954, Chronoclasm)
Circuit of compassion (1954, Compassion circuit)
opposite Number (1954, Opposite numbers)
This strange and penetrating dream (1954, Perforce to dream)
wild Fleur (1955, Wild flower)
the reign of the ants (1956, Consider her ways)
the vacuum of space (1960, The emptiness off space)
Node in time (1961, has stitch in time)
the random search (1961, Random quest)
a life outstanding (1968, has life postponed)

Film adaptations

the Village of damnés the (1960), Film realized by Wolf Rilla;
the Revolt of Triffides (1963), Film realized by Steve Sekely.
the Village of damnés the (1995), Film realized by John Carpenter.

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