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Een Britse geleerde ontdekt samen met een medewerkster dat een bepaald soort korstmos de opmerkelijke eigenschap heeft de menselijke levensduur aanzienlijk te verlengen. Beiden zetten onafhankelijk hun onderzoek naar dit serum van de 'eeuwige jeugd' voort. De man is van mening dat de ontdekking geheim moet blijven, uit vrees voor een strijd om het zeldzame mos. De vrouw daarentegen vreest dat de regering het serum zal in beslag nemen en vernietigen vanwege de enorme maatschappelijke veranderingen die het gebruik met zich meebrengt. In de uitwerking van deze tegengestelde redeneringen toont Wyndham zijn beste werk; het verhaal blijft geloofwaardig ondanks de controverses. Wanneer de ontdekking uiteindelijk bekend wordt, ondervinden de hoofdpersonen de moeilijkheden die daarmee gepaard gaan: aanvankelijk gelooft niemand in de kwaliteiten van het product, en ze lopen het risico gearresteerd te worden voor oplichting en verstoring van de openbare orde. Zodra de publieke opinie omslaat, leidt dit tot enorme maatschappelijke en politieke chaos. Met deze roman biedt Wyndham een verhaal dat zowel de echte SF-lezer als degenen die normaal geen SF lezen, in ademloze spanning houdt.

A millionaire English lord dreams of founding a Utopian community on a remote Pacific island. Among the forty-odd men and women selected for the project are a pestologist named Camilla and the narrator. Within hours of the group's arrival on the sunny isle their radio has been destroyed. Within days several members of the group are dead. Dream turns to nightmare as they discover the island is overrun by a species programmed to resist and dominate any invader.

The Earth was holding a fantastic contest... An international prize of over a million dollars was being offered to the first man to complete an interplanetary journey. Target -- Mars. It was a race against time. The U.S., Russia, and England were again competitors, fighting for fame an fortune. Dale Curance of England didn't need the fortune. He was a millionaire. He was an eccentric. But most of all he was an adventurer and he was determined to win. But winning was not going to be that easy. There were going to be many surprises. And they all began with the stowaway aboard Curtance's ship. A stowaway to Mars. A woman.

"Operatie koekoek" is het verhaal van de vreemde gebeurtenissen die zich voordoen in een rustig en vrijwel onbekend Engels dorpje met de naam Midwich. Op een mooie septemberdag landen daar bewoners van een andere planeet. Zij brengen de bevolking van het dorp in een diepe slaap en vertrekken daarna weer. Dat zou op zichzelf nog niet zo erg hoeven te zijn, maar na enige weken wordt ontdekt dat alle vrouwen in het dorp zwanger zijn. Gelukkig weet men een algemene hysterie te voorkomen, en het voorval wordt voor de omgeving geheim gehouden. Wanneer de baby's worden geboren, blijken deze al spoedig over superieure geestesgaven te beschikken. Het wordt nu duidelijk wat de bedoeling is: als deze kinderen volwassen zijn, zullen zij het hele mensdom gaan overheersen. Het zal een nietsontziende strijd worden om de suprematie. Ook in Rusland is iets dergelijks gebeurd, maar de Russen hebben het hele dorp en zijn bewoners eenovudig met een atoombom uitgeroeid. Natuurlijk gaan ook in Engeland stemmen op om de indringers te liquideren, maar per slot van rekening is men er daar te fatsoenlijk voor. Niemand weet een oplopssing, totdat een leraar het probleem op eigen initiatief uit de wereld helpt.

Dit boek, geschreven door een van de grootste auteurs van sciencefiction van vandaag, is een dramatisch verhaal over twee werelden - de aarde en de vreemde stervende planeet in de ruimte, wiens bewoners, de Dromers, vastbesloten zijn om de mens aan de aarde te ketenen. Een verhaal van wereldconflict dat je zeker zal grijpen.

Coronet Books recently published STOWAWAY TO MARS, one of John Wyndham’s most famous stories. The title story of this collection, though it can be read as a separate entity, pursues the ideas thrown up by the original novel, drawing them to some fascinating conclusions. Of course, we are now well used to the idea of Man On The Moon, we have become blasé as to the possibilities of inter-planetary travel. But imagine two expeditions to Mars, one British, the other Russian, both in the process of discovering a mechanical race, invented and produced by the Martians as they believe their specie to be dying. The other four novellas in this collection give further evidence of John Wyndham’s genius at invention, characterisation and sense of movement.

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.” Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever. But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.

The Lost Machine (1932)The Man from Beyond (1934)The Perfect Creature (1937)The Trojan Beam (1939)Vengeance by Proxy (1940)Adaptation (1949)Pawley's Peepholes (1951)The Red Stuff (1951)And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (1951)Dumb Martian (1952)Close Behind Him (1952)The Emptiness of Space (1960)

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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.

John Wyndham wrote strong, imaginative fiction years before fame came his way, and this is a collection of some of his pieces from those days. Already remarkable are his sense of movement, his sense of invention, his sense of style. The title story of this collection foreshadows frighteningly such later novels as THE KRAKEN WAKES and THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS with its suggestion of time when man is no longer the dominant creature on Earth. And The Last Lunarians and The Derelict of Space show how well he researched his material, long before space ships had struck out for the moon and the idea of inter-planetary travel had become commonplace. This is truly another fascinating piece of evidence of John Wyndham's remarkable talent as a seer and storyteller.

The story of man's leap into the seas of space, from the author of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionallyfall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing sounds . . . In this collection of four of his famous science-fiction stories, John Wyndham creates visions of the future that make us think carefully about the way we live now.

Coronet Books recently published STOWAWAY TO MARS, one of John Wyndham’s most famous stories. The title story of this collection, though it can be read as a separate entity, pursues the ideas thrown up by the original novel, drawing them to some fascinating conclusions. Of course, we are now well used to the idea of Man On The Moon, we have become blasé as to the possibilities of inter-planetary travel. But imagine two expeditions to Mars, one British, the other Russian, both in the process of discovering a mechanical race, invented and produced by the Martians as they believe their specie to be dying. The other four novellas in this collection give further evidence of John Wyndham’s genius at invention, characterisation and sense of movement.

Set in 1935 England, the story follows Phyllida Shiffer as she returns home after her divorce, only to find her father's house locked and him missing. As she navigates the unsettling situation, she encounters mysterious men who believe she may possess crucial information about her father's groundbreaking scientific discovery. This blend of personal turmoil and intrigue propels Phyllida into a web of secrets and danger, challenging her to uncover the truth about her father's work and her own role in it.

The "New Sea" was teeming with a secret life. It was the greatest engineering feat -- the flooding of part of the Sahara Desert. But the new waters that covered up the land also threatened to destroy an ancient, secret civilization beneath the earth. When Mark Sunnet's plane crashed into the New Sea, he and his beautiful companion, Margaret Lawn, were taken prisoner by these secret people. They were taken deep beneath the earth into strange, dark caverns. Caverns that seemed to hold no hope for escape. But Mark and Margaret had to escape. For now, suddenly, they were faced with two terrors -- the secret people who were to be their executioners and the merciless New Sea that threatened to kill them all. . . .

In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancee looks identical to the victims too - and then she disappears.

This short book is a translation of some of the myths of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. It is a history of the creation of the world, the gods, and humanity, and the early days of the sacred city of Ífè, the traditional center of Yoruba culture. The text was recited to the author/translator by the high priests of Ífè, and the book is still cited in some books on traditional Yoruba religion and thought today. It has undeservedly become quite rare, as it can be considered a minor classic in the field.

This book was written to be a training manual and practical guide aimed at the surgical trainee, continence nurse-specialist or the working specialist who wishes to develop an incontinence practice. Although several excellent definitive textbooks already exist on most of the subjects covered in this book, there has been very little directed specifically at these readers. They have particular pressures on their time and need a straightforward and clear discussion of theory and common practice to help them prepare for postgraduate examinations or form the basis for sound clinical pratice in day-to-day management.

Anglický autor John Wyndham (1903–1969) patří k nejvýznamnějším tvůrcům žánru science fiction. Proslavil se především díky románu Den trifidů. Nemenší úspěchy Wyndham slavil i se svými dalšími invazními a katastrofickými romány Kukly či Midwichské kukačky. Ke klasice žánru patří rovněž jeho povídky, které vycházejí v uceleném sborníku u nás poprvé. Ve sbírce najdete tucet příběhů, jež chronologicky mapují celou Wyndhamovu tvorbu od klasické novely Světy na výměnu přes invazní Pýchavkovou hrozbu až po příběhy s hororovými prvky Neviditelná stvůra, Rudé svinstvo a další....

Der englische Autor John Wyndham, bekannt für seine Werke im Bereich der Science-Fiction, präsentiert in dieser Sammlung seiner Kurzgeschichten eindringliche und beunruhigende Erkundungen des Mysteriums und des Unbekannten. Diese großartigen Science-Fiction-Erzählungen zeichnen sich durch Logik, guten Geschmack und britischen Humor aus, können jedoch das Unheimliche, das unerwartet aus den Tiefen des Abgrunds auftaucht, nicht zurückhalten.

Obsahuje dva romány: – Bez východiska (E. S. Holdingová) – Z mořských hlubin (John Wyndham)

Die Erde veranstaltete einen fantastischen Wettkampf... Ein internationaler Preis von über einer Million Dollar wurde dem ersten Mann angeboten, der eine interplanetare Reise abschloss. Ziel – Mars. Es war ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Die USA, Russland und England waren erneut Konkurrenten, die um Ruhm und Reichtum kämpften. Dale Curance aus England benötigte den Reichtum nicht. Er war Millionär. Er war ein Eigenbrötler. Aber vor allem war er ein Abenteurer und entschlossen zu gewinnen. Doch zu gewinnen, würde nicht so einfach sein. Es gab viele Überraschungen. Und sie begannen alle mit dem blinden Passagier an Bord von Curances Schiff. Ein blinder Passagier nach Mars. Eine Frau.

Die Triffids/Die Expedition der "Space Beagle" - 2 SF-Romane - bk118; Verlag "Das Beste"; John Wyndham/Alfred Elton von Vogt; Paperback; 1988

Brüder unter fremder Sonne/Wenn der Krake erwacht - 2 SF-Romane - bk118; Verlag "Das Beste"; Chad Oliver/John Wyndham; Paperback; 1991

Anthologie mit sechs Geschichten von John Wyndham, Arthur C. Clarke, J.T. McIntosh, Ray Bradbury, Katherine MacLean und Arthur Porges.