Author Biography and Bibliography

Novels

The Secret People, George Newnes, 1935; NEL 1987

Planet Plane, George Newnes, 1936; as Stowaway to Mars, Nova UK 1953; NEL 1987

The Day of the Triffids, Doubleday, 1951

The Kraken Wakes (aka The Things from the Deep), Michael Joseph, 1953; Ballantine, 1953

The Chrysalids (aka Re-Birth), Ballantine, 1955

The Midwich Cuckoos, Michael Joseph, 1957

The Trouble with Lichen, Ballantine, 1960

The John Wyndham Omnibus, Simon & Schuster, 1965 (collecting The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids)

Chocky, Ballantine, 1968

Web, Michael Joseph, 1979


Collections

Jizzle, Dobson, 1954

The Seeds of Time, Michael Joseph, 1956

Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter, Ballantine, 1956

The Outward Urge, Michael Joseph 1959; Ballantine, 1959; British Science Fiction Book Club, 1961

Consider Her Ways and Others, Michael Joseph, 1961

The Infinite Moment, Ballantine, 1961

The Best of John Wyndham, Angus Wells ed., Sphere, 1973

Sleepers of Mars, Coronet, 1973

Wanderers of Time, Coronet, 1973

The Man from Beyond and Other Stories, Michael Joseph, 1975

Exiles on Asperus, Severn House, 1979


Short Fiction

"Worlds to Barter" [as John B. Harris], Wonder Stories, 1931

"The Lost Machine" [as John Beynon Harris], Amazing, 1932

"The Venus Adventure" [as John Beynon Harris], Wonder Stories, 1932

"Invisible Monster" [ as John B. Harris], Wonder Stories, 1933

"The Third Vibrator" [as John B. Harris], Wonder Stories, 1933

"Exiles on Asperus" [as John Beynon Harris], Wonder Stories Quarterly, 1933

"The Puff-Ball Menace" (aka "Spheres of Hell") [as John Beynon Harris], Wonder Stories, 1933

"Wanderers of Time" [as John Beynon Harris], Wonder Stories, 1933

" The Man from Earth" (aka "The Man from Beyond") [as John B. Harris], Wonder Stories, 1934

"The Moon Devils" [as John Beynon Harris], Wonder Stories, 1934

"The Cathedral Crypt," Marvel Tales, 1935

"Una" (aka "The Perfect Creature"), 1937

"The Last Lunarians" (aka "The Moon Devils"), Wonder Stories, 1938

"Sleepers of Mars" [as John Beynon], Tales of Wonder, 1938

"Child of Power," Fantasy, 1939

"Derelict of Space," Fantasy, 1939

"The Trojan Beam," Fantasy, 1939

"Judson's Annihilator aka Beyond the Screen" [as John Beynon], Amazing Stories, 1939

"Vengeance by Proxy" [as John Beynon], Strange Stories, 1940

"Phoney Meteor" [as John Beynon], Amazing, 1941

"The Living Lies" [as John Beynon], 1946

"Adaptation" (1949) [as John Beynon], Astounding

"Time to Rest" [as John Beynon], Arkham Sampler, 1949

"The Eternal Eve," Amazing, 1950

"Technical Slip" [as John Beynon Harris], Arkham Sampler, 1950

"And the Walls Came Tumbling Down," Startling Stories, 1951

"Pawley's Peepholes" (aka "Operation Peep"), Suspense, 1951

"Pillar to Post," Galaxy (1951

"A Present from Brunswick" (aka "Bargain from Brunswick"), The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1951

"The Red Stuff," Marvel Science Stories, 1951

"Artist and Slave Girl," [as John Beynon], 10 Story Fantasy, 1951

"No Place Like Earth" (aka "Tyrant and Slave-Girl on Venus") [as John Beynon], New Worlds (1951)

"No Place Like Home," [as John Beynon], 1951

"Dumb Martian aka Out Of This World," Galaxy, 1952

"Survival," Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1952

"The Wheel," Startling Stories, 1952

"Jizzle," [as John Beynon], Collier's, 1952

"Chinese Puzzle," Argosy - UK, 1953

"The Chronoclasm," Star SF Stories #1, 1953

"Close Behind Him," Fantastic, 1953

"Confidence Trick," Fantastic, 1953

"How Do I Do?," Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 1953

"More Spinned Against," Fantasy Fiction, 1953

"The Perfect Creature," Tales of Wonder, 1953

"Reservation Deferred," Fantastic, 1953

"Time Out" (aka Time Stops Today"), Future, 1953

"Affair of the Heart," Jizzle, Dobson, 1954

"Compassion Circuit," Fantastic Universe, 1954

"Esmeralda," Jizzle, Dobson, 1954

"Heaven Scent," Everybody's Weekly, 1954

"Look Natural, Please!," Jizzle, Dobson, 1954

"Opposite Numbers," New Worlds, 1954

"Pawley's Peepholes" (aka "Operation Peep"), Suspense, 1954

"Perforce to Dream," Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 1954

"Never on Mars," Fantastic Universe, 1954)

"Wild Flower," Fantastic Universe, 1955

"Consider Her Ways," Sometime Never, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956

"Mars A.D. 2094" (aka "The Thin Gnat-Voices"), New Worlds, 1958

"The Moon A.D. 2044 (aka "Idiot's Delight"), New Worlds , 1958

"The Space Station A.D. 1994" (aka For All the Night"), New Worlds, 1958

"Venus A.D. 2144" aka "Space Is a Province of Brazil"), New Worlds, 1958

"The Troons of Space - Mars A.D. 2094," Fantastic, 1959

"The Troons of Space - Venus A.D. 2144," Fantastic, 1959

"The Asteroids, 2194" (aka "The Emptiness of Space"), New Worlds, 1960

"A Long Spoon," Suspense - UK, 1960

"The Lost Machine" [as John B. Harris], Amazing Stories, 1960

"Odd," Consider Her Ways and Others, Michael Joseph, 1961

"Oh, Where, Now, Is Peggy MacRafferty?" Consider Her Ways and Others, Michael Joseph, 1961

"Random Quest," Consider Her Ways and Others, Michael Joseph, 1961

"A Stitch in Time," Argosy - UK, 1961

"It's a Wise Child" (aka "Wise Child"), Argosy - UK, 1962

"Chocky," Amazing Stories, 1963

"The Eternal Eye," Amazing Stories, 1965

"A Life Postponed," Galaxy, 1968