The Best of John Wyndham is a paperback

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 collection of science fiction

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 short stories by John Wyndham

John Wyndham

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes...

, published after his death by Sphere Books

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, first in 1973. Michael Joseph Limited

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 has published the book as a hardcover

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 under the title The Man from Beyond and Other Stories in 1975. For the 1977 Sphere paperback edition it was split into 2 parts, both containing the full bibliography and the introduction by Leslie Flood.

The Best of John Wyndham 1932-1949 (ISBN 0-7221-9373-4)

• The Lost Machine (1932)
• The Man from Beyond (1934)
• The Perfect Creature (1937)
• The Trojan Beam (1939)
• Vengeance by Proxy (1940)
• Adaptation (1949)

The Best of John Wyndham 1951-1960 (ISBN 0-7221-9374-2)

• Pawley's Peepholes (1951)
• The Red Stuff (1951)
• And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (1951)
• Dumb Martian (1952)
• Close Behind Him (1952)
• The Emptiness of Space (1960)

• The Lost Machine is the posthumous history of an artificial intelligence's experiences on the barbaric planet Earth in the primitive times of the early 20th Century.

• The Man From Beyond sees a human desperately attempting to convince the people of Venus to have nothing to do with their neighbours in space as they are without hope of redemption.

• The Perfect Creature has also been published as Una in Jizzle
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  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...
  
  and tells the story of a scientist's attempts to create the 'perfect' creature, and what happens when he gets the hormone balance wrong.

• The Trojan Beam sees a British secret agent used as a go-between with the warring states of China and Japan and sees the Trojan Beam used to alter the balance of power.

• Vengeance by Proxy is a horror story updating the vampire myth to modern Eastern Europe and pastiching the story telling form of Bram Stoker
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  's Dracula
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• Adaption dramatises the need for life to be adapted to the world in which it grows on as a father searches desperately for his long lost daughter.

• Pawley's Peepholes sees time travelers from the future disrupting small town life by treating it as a quaint place to sight see.

• The Red Stuff is a mysterious, fast growing entity that first consumes a meteorite, then an entire space ship and ends up on a moon base.

• And the Walls Came Tumbling Down is the report of a silicone based life form experiencing hostility on Earth.

• Dumb Martian tells of a Human and his Martian 'wife' out deep in space, far away from civilisation and the man's slow descent into brutality and madness.

• Close Behind Him is a horror story about a burglar who becomes convinced that the spirit of a man killed during a break in is coming ever closer behind him.

• The Emptiness of Space is a story of the Troon family as seen in The Outward Urge. In New Caledonia, 2194, an astronaut suffers the after effects of the urge to travel in space and fears he has lost his soul.