#john wyndham

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A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #446

1958

[weirdlookindog]

The Day of the Triffids (1963)

Joseph Smith poster artwork

[izzi-illustrates]

A lovely commission I got to do last month of someone's favourite books :) Would be happy to do more commisisons like this!

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[quasi-normalcy]

If I had a nickel for every post-apocalyptic dystopian novel I'd read that was set in Labrador, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[fibula-rasa]

Out of the Unknown

1.01 No Place Like Earth

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Original Air Date: 4 October 1965

Direction: Peter Potter

Production Design: Peter Seddon

Visual Effects: Bernard Wilkie

Performer(s): Terence Morgan, Jessica Dunning, Hannah Gordon, Joseph O'Conor, & Geoffrey Palmer

"'But there's no reason to go back to the primitive. What's been said and worked out is all there in the books—books that are here on Venus. What I've seen for myself and what you've told me goes against it all. The thing they've set up is something like an ancient slave-state. We all know there's a better way of life than that—so, for God's sake, what's happening? With all the knowledge from Earth behind them, and the chance to build a new Earth here, surely they aren't going to pour half of history down the drain?'

'The other man looked at him for some moments before he answered, then he said:

'"Son, I guess you've got it kind of wrong. Building a new Earth is just what they are doing. What you're complaining about is that they've not started in building a new heaven.'"

— from "No Place Like Earth" by John Wyndham

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FANTASTIC UNIVERSE Science Fiction vol. 2, no. 5 (Leo Margulies, 1954)

Art: Alex Schomberg

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John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids (Galaktika Library series, Bulgaria, 1982)

artist: Tekla Aleksieva

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Best Books I Read in 2022

In no particular order

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor. Okay, I know I said "no particular order" but I think this was my #1 for the year. Starting with a misunderstood, nerdy bookworm, who ends up being the only one who can save the word, how can it get better? Maybe the fantasy, the interdimensional travel, the demigods... I'll absolutely reread this one again.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. Magical realism, historical fiction, and a hint of the devil. What's not to love?

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun. Hey, the first in the list that isn't a drama. In fact, this rom-com has it all: neurodiversity, secret relationships, 'let's fuck away our problems', and lots of queer representation!

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. Oops, back to the serious books. I'm a sucker for dystopian novels, and knew I'd love this. If you can, listen to the audiobook read by Noah Reid; his narration is chef's kiss.

A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske. More historical fantasy with magical realism! Plus throw in some turn-of-the-century queer folks, and you're all set! At least I am, because apparently magical queer books are my jam.

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas. Okay, this fantasy doesn't have a bunch of queer representation, but it's got lots of smut! The latest in the Court of Thorns and Roses series, this one follows a different MC who is kind of a super bitch, and I kind of love it.

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. Oh good, back to the weird gay books. This post-apocalyptic horror stars a trans teen who revolts against the radical evangelical terrorists who unleashed a plague upon the world. This is a book that sinks it's teeth into you. And claws.

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. More historical fantasy with interdimensional travel and magic! Not as gay, but just as interesting, and the second book has a strong female main character.

All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown. Another book about post-apocalyptic queer youths! This one is much less horror than the previously mentioned, but more heartwarming. Two teen boys trying to find their way in a post-pandemic work (not COVID, but a similar illness with a more drastic outcome).

Book Lovers by Emily Henry. Sorry to end this list with a heterosexual rom-com, but we do what we have to. A book about two people who love books, working on a book? With a bookstore?! Yes please!

Honorable Mention: Heartstopper, by Alice Oseman. This year I re-read the graphic novels, as well as some of the novels and novellas of the Osemanverse, and the Hearstopper Yearbook. Loved the show? You'll love the books even better. I don't know how Alice does it, but she created some of the best characters to ever live on the page.

[bookmaven]

THE SECRET PEOPLE by John Benyon Harris [aka John Wyndham] (New York: Lancer 72-701, 1964) Cover art by Frank Frazetta.

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Il Duca's Max Rimensi has four pieces on-site this week including this darkly sandblasted Bent Dublin with a willowy three knuckle stretch of black bamboo and a smooth finished rim that's been partially left to plateau. https://smokingpip.es/3riZxJT

[misforgotten2]

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #407

Cover by Frank Frazetta -- 1964

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Jeanette Scott in The Day of the Triffids (1963)

[exhaled-spirals]

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that 'it can't happen here'—that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

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The Chrysalids

The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, is a 1955 science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. Some unexplained worldwide nuclear event, called the Tribulation, has led to mass deaths and mutations in plant and animal life, with a small human settlement trying to eke out an existence in a hostile environment. The book is from the 1950s, so naturally a nuclear disaster is the enemy. It’s never…

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