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An SF Gateway eBook: bringing the classics to the future
A collection of science fiction short stories from the master author of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS.
In 1941, Roy Sabre's girlfriend Betty mysteriously disappears.
Ten years later he has constructed a time-machine and his first trip is to go back to find her.
But his arrival is observed and his machine attacked and damaged as it departs - instead of returning to 1951, it travels to the far future where mankind has disappeared and the Earth is under the control of machines controlled by insects.
Roy finds that several other time-travellers, due to damage and malfunction, have been cast forward to the same time . . .
Stories included:
- "Wanderers of Time"
- "Derelict of Space"
- "Child of Power"
- "The Last Lunarians"
- "The Puff-ball Menace"
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John Wyndham
John Wyndham (1903-69)
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was the son of a barrister, who started writing short stories in 1925. During the war he was in the civil service and then the army. In 1946 he went back to writing stories for publication in the USA and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, which he called 'logical fantasy'. As John Wyndham, he is best-known as the author of The Day of the Triffids, but he wrote many other successful novels including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned).
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