- Location
- Marlow, UK
I’m slowly working through the small collection of science fiction novels I acquired in my early teens. I made a start with Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov and I’m currently going through a John Wyndham phase, having read The Kraken Wakes and this one, The Chrysalids, in the last month.
They were both good, but The Kraken Wakes was a little too much like the War of the Worlds for my liking, whereas the story line of the Chrysalids was unfamiliar to me and quite compelling throughout (apart from a deus ex machina ending, which I will forgive)
You can see how long I’ve had this copy as the cover price is pre-decimal, although I probably wasn’t the original owner.
It looks like I never bought the Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, although I’m sure I read it at least once. Perhaps that was a library book. In any case, I should really pick up a copy as I’m developing a second love for this sort of classic science fiction. Some Jules Verne next though, I think.
-R
They were both good, but The Kraken Wakes was a little too much like the War of the Worlds for my liking, whereas the story line of the Chrysalids was unfamiliar to me and quite compelling throughout (apart from a deus ex machina ending, which I will forgive)
You can see how long I’ve had this copy as the cover price is pre-decimal, although I probably wasn’t the original owner.
It looks like I never bought the Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, although I’m sure I read it at least once. Perhaps that was a library book. In any case, I should really pick up a copy as I’m developing a second love for this sort of classic science fiction. Some Jules Verne next though, I think.
-R