John Wyndham Books in Order

This modern retrospective brings together eighteen stories from across Wyndham's career, from early pulp adventures to later, subtler pieces. Robots, time tourists, courtroom arguments and haunted machines sit side by side, revealing recurring concerns about empathy, technology and change.

When James Burden inherits the old family seat of Shotlander Priory, an age old curse promising death by fire and water seems to awaken. Mysterious deaths, vanished heirs and secret passages tangle into a classic country house murder puzzle.

In a noir tinged thriller, photojournalist Johnny Farthing discovers doubles of himself and his fiancée turning up across the world. His search uncovers a hidden enclave of surviving Nazis, cloning technology and a plan to trigger global nuclear war.

This later collection assembles sixteen stories spanning planets, decades and moods. Survivors of Earth's destruction, drifters on Mars and Venus, haunted inventors and uneasy ghosts share the stage, revealing a quieter, more reflective side of Wyndham's science fiction.

Written as an accessible reader, Meteor and Other Stories presents several of Wyndham's shorter tales, including the title story of tiny alien explorers who crash land on Earth. The collection offers a compact, approachable introduction to his brand of thoughtful science fiction.

A grieving engineer joins a scheme to build a utopian community on a remote Pacific island. Tanakuatua looks perfect, until they discover it is overrun by intelligent, cooperative spiders, turning their hopeful experiment into a chilling study in hubris and colonisation.

Three long stories follow exiled Martian dissidents, stranded human crews and early explorers flung together on the harsh world Asperus and on nearby planets. Mutinies, strange ecologies and stark choices about loyalty drive these fast moving, atmospheric adventures.

Spanning early magazine pieces and later classics, this selection of twelve stories showcases Wyndham's range, from wayward robots and time tourists to unsettling Martian encounters and domestic hauntings, a handy one volume tour of his short fiction.

Time machines go awry in these linked stories, throwing travellers into far futures of insect ruled machines, dying moons and strange empires. Each tale plays with the hazards of time travel and the sadness of arriving in worlds that no longer need you.

In this planetary tale, a lone human messenger tries to convince the people of Venus to shun contact with warlike Earth. His warning about humanity's capacity for destruction turns first contact into a tense moral argument about survival and trust.

This edition of The Best Of John Wyndham collects key short stories and novelettes, including The Man from Beyond and Dumb Martian, highlighting how his compact tales of aliens, technology and quiet terror complement the better known novels.

Five early spacefaring adventures unfold here, including a sequel to Stowaway To Mars. Expeditions to Mars and Venus, invisible monsters and catastrophic super weapons mix pulp thrills with glimpses of the more thoughtful science fiction Wyndham would later write.

Twelve year old Matthew insists he is talking with an invisible friend named Chocky. His parents humour him, until Chocky's questions about maths, physics and distant worlds grow disturbingly precise, drawing official attention to the alien mind sharing their son's.

This anthology of early 1930s science fiction novellas includes Wyndham's planetary adventure Exiles on Asperus alongside other writers' lunar and space tales, offering a compact snapshot of pulp era visions of alien worlds, lost colonies and perilous expeditions.

Following one family across generations, this fix up novel charts humanity's push into space, from the first orbital stations to colonies on the Moon, Mars, Venus and the asteroids. Each episode shows how exploration reshapes both the Troon clan and Earth below.

This companion collection gathers six time tangled tales, including the matriarchal future of Consider Her Ways, a haunting love story skewed by temporal paradox and a writer who meets the heroine of her own dreams, blurring memory, regret and second chances.

A woman wakes in a future world made up entirely of women, her mind trapped in an unfamiliar body. The title novella and accompanying stories use time experiments, parallel lives and uneasy bargains with the supernatural to question power, choice and destiny.

Biochemist Diana Brackley discovers a rare lichen that can slow ageing for centuries. As she and her employer argue over who should benefit, the secret leaks, sparking power struggles, moral panics and a sharp, witty debate about gender, class and longevity.

After a mysterious blackout, every woman in the quiet village of Midwich finds herself pregnant. The children who follow are eerily alike, share a group mind and can bend adults to their will, forcing the villagers to confront an inhuman brood.

Ten science fiction stories explore time travel, space maroons, robot ethics and subtle parallel worlds. From a paraplegic who swaps bodies across centuries to a tourist plague of visitors from the future, these tales showcase Wyndham's playful, thoughtful side.

Drawn from the collections Jizzle and The Seeds of Time, this volume mixes creepy horror with wry comedy. Circus animals, unsettling gifts and wayward inventions spark short, sharp stories that slide from unease into darkly comic surprise.

In a rigidly religious farming community obsessed with physical perfection, young David hides a far more dangerous deviation: telepathy. As he and his friends grow, their secret gift becomes a death sentence, forcing a desperate flight toward a very different society.

This collection gathers some of Wyndham's sharpest short fiction, from the tale of a spiteful performing monkey with a talent for drawing to ironic time slips and eerie love stories, blending dark humour with quiet, unsettling twists.

Radio journalist Mike Watson and his wife Phyllis watch mysterious fireballs plunge into the oceans, heralding an invasion from the deep. Over years, strange sea tanks, sinking ships and rising seas slowly transform Earth into a drowned, terrifying new world.

After a dazzling night sky event leaves most people blind, Bill Masen wakes in a wrecked London where mobile, venomous plants are on the loose. He must lead a handful of sighted survivors through a world slipping into chaos.

A pioneering rocket pilot and his companion crash into a vast artificial lake in the newly flooded Sahara. Dragged into caverns beneath the desert, they discover an ancient pygmy civilisation whose fragile world is about to be drowned from above.

Test pilot Dale Curtance races rival nations to be first on Mars, only to find a determined young woman has hidden aboard his ship. Their uneasy partnership leads to a Mars filled with unexpected machines, politics and questions about humanity's future.

In 1930s England, newly divorced Phyllida Shiffer returns home to find her scientist father missing and his house under watch. As the police investigate, buried experiments, family secrets and a cool headed inspector converge into a quietly unsettling crime mystery.