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"This is not the age of reason, this is the age of flummery, and the day of the devious approach. Reason’s gone into the backrooms where it works to devise means by which people can be induced to emote in the desired direction." John Wyndham, J. (1960), The Trouble With Lichen. Penguin Books. pg. 91. Note: Minor adaptations added.

Works by John Wyndham
Novels
  • Foul Play Suspected
  • The Secret People
  • Stowaway to Mars
  • The Day of the Triffids
  • The Kraken Wakes
  • The Chrysalids
  • The Midwich Cuckoos
  • The Outward Urge
  • Trouble with Lichen
  • Chocky
  • Web
  • Plan for Chaos
Short stories
  • Consider Her Ways
  • Random Quest
Short story collections
  • Jizzle
  • The Seeds of Time
  • Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter
  • Consider Her Ways and Others
  • The Infinite Moment
  • Sleepers of Mars
  • The Best of John Wyndham
  • Wanderers of Time
  • Exiles on Asperus
  • No Place like Earth
Film adaptations
  • The Day of the Triffids
  • Village of the Damned (1960)
  • Quest For Love
  • Village of the Damned (1995)
Radio adaptations
  • Chocky
  • The Day of the Triffids
  • The Chrysalids
  • The Kraken Wakes
  • The Midwich Cuckoos
  • Survival
  • The Trouble with Lichen
TV adaptations
  • The Day of the Triffids (1981 TV series)
  • Chocky
  • Random Quest
  • Consider Her Ways
  • The Day of the Triffids (2009 TV series)
Book adaptations
  • The Night of the Triffids

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