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No Place Like Earth
''No Place Like Earth'' () is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer John Wyndham, published in July 2003 by Darkside Press. Contents The collection contains the following short stories: *"Derelict of Space" (first published in '' Wanderers of Time'') * "Time to Rest" (also available in ''The Seeds of Time'') * "No Place Like Earth" (first published in '' Exiles on Asperus'') * "In Outer Space There Shone a Star" * "But a Kind of a Ghost" * "The Cathedral Crypt" "A Life Postponed"* "Technical Slip" (previously published in '' Jizzle'') * "Una" (first published in ''Jizzle'') * "It's a Wise Child" * "Pillar to Post" (first published in ''The Seeds of Time'') * "The Stare" * "Time Stops Today" * "The Meddler" * "Blackmoil" * "A Long Spoon" (first published in '' Consider Her Ways and Others'') See also There is a compilation of short science fiction stories published under the same title: John Carnell Edward John Carnell (8 April 1912 – 23 March 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
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WikiProject Books
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John Wyndham
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (; 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include ''The Day of the Triffids'' (1951), filmed in 1962, and ''The Midwich Cuckoos'' (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as '' Village of the Damned'', in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title. Wyndham was born in Warwickshire and spent most of his childhood in private education in Devon and Hampshire. He tried several careers before publishing a novel and several short stories. He saw action during World War II and went back to writing afterwards, publishing several very successful novels, and influencing a number of other writers who followed him. On the plausibility of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darkside Press
Dark side, Dark Side, or Darkside may refer to: Popular culture * Dark side (''Star Wars''), the dark side of the Force in the ''Star Wars'' universe * ''Dark Side'' (video game), a 1988 video game from Incentive Software * ''The Dark Side'' (book), a 2008 book by Jane Mayer * ''The Dark Side'' (magazine), a UK horror film publication * ''Darkside'' (novel), a 2007 children's novel by Tom Becker * ''Darkside'', a horror novel by Dennis Etchison * ''Darkside'' (radio play), a 2013 drama by Tom Stoppard, based on Pink Floyd's album ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' * Darkside, Scottish professional wrestler known for winning the ICW World Heavyweight Championship (Scotland) * ''Darksyde'', a ship in the ''Beast Wars'' television series Music * Darkside (band), an American electronica duo * The Darkside, a British indie band * Darkside, a subgenre of grime * Darkside, UK Hardcore Techno event, established in 1999 as part of Twisted Events Albums * ''The Dark Side'' (DarkSun a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanderers Of Time
''Wanderers Of Time'' is a collection of five science fiction stories (one short story and four novelettes) by John Wyndham, published in Coronet Books in 1973. The stories were early works, originally published in magazines in the 1930s and written under the name of John Beynon. Contents * "Before the Triffids" :An introduction by Walter Gillings, a UK editor and journalist active in Science fiction fandom since the 1930s. * "Wanderers of Time", novelette (''Wonder Stories ''Wonder Stories'' was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine, ''Amazing Stor ...'', March 1933) * "Derelict of Space", novelette (''Fantasy, Number 3'', 1939) * "Child of Power", novelette (''Fantasy, Number 3'', 1939) * "The Last Lunarians" (''Wonder Stories'', April 1934 as "The Moon Devils") * "The Puff-ball Menace", novelette (''Wonder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seeds Of Time
''The Seeds of Time'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer John Wyndham, published in 1956 by Michael Joseph. The title is presumably from '' Macbeth'', Act I Scene III. Contents The collection contains: * a foreword by John Wyndham * "Chronoclasm", a time-travelling romantic comedy. * "Time To Rest", depicting the life on Mars of a human survivor of the destruction of Earth. A sequel "No Place Like Earth" appears in the collection ''No Place Like Earth'' (2003), which contains both; both also appeared dramatised together in 1965 as “No Place Like Earth”, the first episode of the BBC2 series, ''Out of the Unknown''. * "Meteor", in which alien visitors to Earth find themselves on a very different scale to humans. * "Survival", set on a spacecraft marooned in orbit around Mars. A BBC Radio 4 adaption was broadcast in 1989 with Stephen Garlick, Susan Sheridan, and Nicholas Courtney. It was released as an Audiobook in 2007 with the 1981 ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exiles On Asperus
''Exiles on Asperus'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer John Wyndham, writing as John Beynon, published in 1979 after his death by Coronet Books. Contents The collection contains: *"Exiles on Asperus" (1933) *"No Place Like Earth" (1951) *"The Venus Adventure" (1932) "Exiles on Asperus" tells the story of a human crew who are transporting a group of Martian dissidents to a penal colony only for the captives to revolt leading to the crew, prisoners, and the survivors of a previous crash becoming embroiled in a battle for survival against the indigenous life form of the planet Asperus. Exiles on Asperus was originally published in the Winter 1933 issue of the pulp magazine ''Wonder Stories, Wonder Stories Quarterly''. "No Place Like Earth" sees a survivor of the Earth's destruction facing a slow, quiet life on Mars or becoming part of the efforts to keep humanity alive on Venus, and the repercussions of his decision. "The Venus Adventure" tells ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jizzle (book)
''Jizzle'' () is a collection of science-fiction short stories by John Wyndham, published in 1954. The collection contains: Stories *"Jizzle" *"Technical Slip" *"A Present from Brunswick" *"Chinese Puzzle" *"Esmeralda" *"How Do I Do?" *"Una" *"Affair of the Heart" *"Confidence Trick" *"The Wheel" *"Look Natural, Please!" *"Perforce to Dream" *"Reservation Deferred" *"Heaven Scent" *"More Spinned Against" Plot summaries ;Jizzle: the title story Jizzle refers to a monkey purchased by a man working in a circus side-show. The monkey, apparently named Jizzle as a mis-pronunciation of ''Giselle'', has the ability to draw portraits of anyone placed in front of her, and her new owner exploits this talent in the circus. Jealousy builds up between the monkey and the man's wife, culminating when the man finds a picture Jizzle has drawn of his wife apparently sleeping with his friend. After his wife leaves, as a result of the picture, the man begins to tire of Jizzle and mistreats her, eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consider Her Ways
"Consider Her Ways" is a 1956 science fiction novella by English writer John Wyndham. It was republished as part of a 1961 collection entitled ''Consider Her Ways and Others'', where it forms over a third of the book. It initially appeared as one third of the anthology ''Sometime, Never'' along with " Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake and " Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding. Plot Jane, a woman from the present day, has taken a drug called chuinjuatin, thought to induce out-of-body experiences. She wakes up not as herself, but in a bloated body unknown to her. Initially she has amnesia. She has mentally time travelled into the future. Society is in this time period made up only of women, organized into a strict hierarchy of caste. She is a member of the mother caste. Jane's initial contacts have not even heard of men; they believe her to be mad. Doctors consent to take Jane to meet Laura, an aged historian. Jane learns that she has only travelled a little more than a centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carnell
Edward John Carnell (8 April 1912 – 23 March 1972) was a British science fiction editor known for editing ''New Worlds'' in 1946 then from 1949 to 1963. He also edited ''Science Fantasy'' from the 1950s. After the magazines were sold to another publisher he left to launch the '' New Writings in Science Fiction'' anthology series, editing 21 issues until his death, after which the series was continued by Kenneth Bulmer for a further 9 issues. Taken together his publications played a role in starting the careers of Damien Broderick, Brian W. Aldiss, James White, J. G. Ballard, and his successor at ''New Worlds'', Michael Moorcock. Despite that list, Carnell tended to prefer adventure and Hard SF to New Wave experimentation so John Christopher, Kenneth Bulmer, and E. C. Tubb were more typical of his tenure. However, he was not seen as an opponent of the New Wave in the way John W. Campbell tended to be, and he even published a number of more experimental works by such authors a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
